It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

I know I am talking nonsense, but I’d rather go rambling on, and partly expressing something I find it difficult to express, than to keep on transmitting faultless platitudes.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall grant death no dominion over his thoughts.

There are so many different kinds of stupidity, and cleverness is one of the worst.

But maybe no one knew that much. Maybe everyone was making it up as they went along, the same as me.

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

I was actually pissed off. I wanted to go my entire ECW career without winning titles. The only reason I won titles is because guys left.