You should always pay attentionto quality. A coffin, for instance, should laast a lifetime.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

Expect nothing. Today: that is your life.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

I’ll wait for you, ” he said as his hand dropped to his side, as his eyes began to dim. “I think I could wait for you forever.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.

You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.