God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

Life is always at some turning point.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

The very essence of love is love itself without any other expectation.

The more we understand the simplicity of life, the less complex we shall live.

The weakness of most men they do not know how to become a stone or tree.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services industry will bring.

Every goal is hard work, especially in such an excellent league as the Bundesliga; or even take the Champions League.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.