The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. 

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Zebra crossings offer safe passage to pedestrians in cities but there is no such thing for zebras in the African jungles!

The sun that rises at dawn has to set at dusk.