I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

That's exactly what made America so different, we don't have that colonial aspect of let's go conquer somebody else and make our nation bigger and that's because of the faith element.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. The blood that was shed was bad blood; the blood that was saved was good blood.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.