From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

The constitutional questions are in the first instance not questions of right but questions of might.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

It took greater energy to be able to focus when heardthe voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.

When the moon gets bored, it kills whales. Blue whales and fin whales and humpback, sperm, and orca whales: centrifugal forces don’t discriminate.

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.