I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.

Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer energy-efficient products that are, by nature, climate-friendly.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.

To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains.

I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.