And involuntarily I compared the childish sarcasm, the religious sarcasm of Voltaire with the irresistible irony of the German philosopher whose influence is henceforth ineffaceable.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The kiss itself is immortal. It travels from lip to lip, century to century, from age to age. Men and women garner these kisses, offer them to others and then die in turn.

....and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the greatest shatterer of dreams who had ever dwelt on earth.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

We can make our earth a heaven or a hell based on the choices that we make.

I am pleased God made my skin black. I only wish He had to made it thicker.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.

Hillary Clinton is given approval and veto power over quotes written about her in the New York Times.

After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.