But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Allocate your resources wisely for all men have been endowed with abilities that are more than sufficient to accomplish even the greatest of their dreams.

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

I am a product [...of] endless books.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.