When I consider writing I sometimes wonder why doesn't everybody do it, other times I wonder why does anybody do it.

A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight.

I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me.

The mark of a great leader is not, only, one that found the courage to believe in themselves, but one, that was able to motivate others to take a look inward, and do the same.

The only way to know if you can ever grab hold of your dreams is to reach for them.

The only shores you will never reach in life are those you have allowed yourself to believe, were too far.

Those who believe in justice find silence too great a burden to carry.

Love is always reminding me that there is something else left to do

I have never seen as far, than those times I have looked through someone else's perspective.

Every war is not worth fighting and every victory is not worth celebratingbecause not ever disagrement should creat an enemy.

A friend is someone that asks, 'how are you, ' and really wants to hear the truth.

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I am an expert witness because I say I am.

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances from day to day.

After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

You are more than human. You are a child of God.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.