Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

In spiritual moments we nearly perceive a grand, divine conspiracy of interconnectedness between us and everything.

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.

I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.

I ran for Congress, just once.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids