Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.

Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything.

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out!

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

There is no progress in art.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

People seldom learn from the mistakes of others-not because they deny the value of the past, but because they are faced with new problems.

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important.

It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.

My theory is that church used to be that place. Instead of being a place where you went to look good, it was a place where you could risk going every week to look your worst.

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.

You just see your hands, your ice axe, and your crampons...and they have to just move.