FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Don't go back over the past. Let it depart, never to return.

Someone once told me that they didn't like me very much. I smiled and replied, "That's okay. For a long time, I didn't like myself either.

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.

God is as just as he is merciful.