If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

It is my duty to voice the sufferings of humankind, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high. This is my task, but it is not an easy one to fulfill.

I can always paint very well with my eyes, but with my hands it doesn't always work out.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

I was put in this world to change it.

Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon?

I thought I was a revolutionary and was only an evolutionary.

There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

Just smile, breath, and give thanks (and there is always a reason to), because it beats the hell out of the alternative.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love

Most science fiction, quite frankly, is silly nonsense.

We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

There is no debate here, just scientists and non-scientists. And since the subject is science, the non-scientists don't get a vote.

Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?

God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.

I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

I have decided that whatever time I may have left is left for Him.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.