In overstepping our limitations, in touching the extreme boundaries of man's world, we have come to know something of its true splendor.

The mountains were there and so was I.

Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

In life, you will always find what you are looking for.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).

Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

A secret is a kind of promise.... It can also be a prison.

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!

The dilemma of Brechtian performance is that, for all of Brecht's emphasis on rationality and the undermining of theatrical illusion, the actor must convincingly portray something that she is not.

Pride is that which claims to be the author of what is really a gift.