Eventually sinking into despair, [Heinrich von Kleist] shot himself in 1811 as part of a suicide pact made with a woman suffering from incurable cancer.

Don Quixote could never manage without his patient servant Sancho Panza.

Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?

I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

I think the most important thing for any driver is to know that he's getting equality of equipment and priority.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

I love basketball, but playing basketball doesn't fully define who I am. I was always a good student, too.

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.