I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

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.

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

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.

Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.

The more Christian you are in this town, the more makeup you wear. I've always thought that it's because if you were to die suddenly, you'd look better for God.

At first we hope too much later on not enough.

I don't want to become a brand and I certainly don't want to have a persona.

Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.

The only law we broke was the Brezhnev doctrine that once a country is in the Soviet bloc it cannot be overthrown.

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

I really struggle to get up in the morning, but I also get my best ideas really late at night, when I'm trying to sleep.

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.

For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre.