Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

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.

One act of kindness teaches more about the love of Jesus than the words I speak.

Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction.

Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

Hurricane Sandy was one of the most vicious storm systems to hit the New York City area in nearly two centuries.

As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

If we practice love of neighbor with great perfection, we will have done everything.