Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Believe what you see with your eyes

It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.Psalms, 55:12

It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.

Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.