In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

You are worthy of a great life. Desire, dream and seek it.

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it.

I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.