But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

The incessant witless repetition of advertisers' moron-fodder has become so much a part of life that, if we are not careful, we forget to be insulted by it.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

That's what I want to see, and that's what Trump is calling for, to take the power back from Washington, D.C.

Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings.

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.