I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

It's been a long time since I've been me.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Live with God, have faith in God – it is true happiness

I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift

Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

There are more good people than bad people, and overall there’s more that’s good in the world than there is that’s bad. We just need to hear about it, we just need to see it.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

I wear white or pale-blue shirts and black knit ties: They don't draw attention to me in any kind of peacockish way.

You want to hear vocals? Go sing it.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.