Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Every idea, extended into infinity, becomes its own opposite.

Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me.

I urge the general public to be wary of the police on the grounds of health and safety.

More people live off cancer than die from it.

I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

I've been all over this big old world, hey looking for a ring-dang-do.