Time has a way of demonstrating . . . the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.

Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

Life is a rainbow which also includes black.

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day.

Faith brings what was impossible yesterday into reality today and makes it perpetual tomorrow.

So you have to accept facts as fact.

Love your flaws, and own your quirks.

Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.

I'm not a role model.

My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle!

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.