Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.

Nooooooo... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Intelligence is characterized by a natural incomprehension of life.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.