The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument

Layer by layer art strips life bare.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Today is tomorrow’s stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.

It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.

Mankind must live in a harmony with one another in order to have a peaceful world.

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

Chicks cannot hold their smoke, dat's what it is.

All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.

Beautiful coquettes are quacks of love.

I … noticed something striking about my growing cast of deniers. None of them were deniers.