I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you'll go after you're dead.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.