Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

...the pain that comes from loving someone who's in trouble can be profound.

Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on Darwinian ideas.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.