“Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!”

“The more you stand aloof from the sword, from the arrow, from the lance and from the fist, the more you become civilised!”

“Those that can’t change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!”

“If you want to defeat a country, defeat it with your ideas! If you want to defeat your enemies, defeat them with your ideas! Let your only sword and gun be your sharp and powerful ideas!”

“Something reduces the speed of the world and that something is stupidity! Stupidity is a boring friction!”

“Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!”

“Archimedes once said that ‘Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.’ There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!”