My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak. The amount of oil available globally, I think, has already peaked.

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

Mom discovered too late that sometimes a hardworking man is more successful than a brilliant one.

This far north the sun was still up, although very low, riding through the mountains as if looking for something it lost on the ground.

Taking personal responsibility is the major difference between the best and the rest.

Because I have something to say doesn't mean everyone has to take it too seriously or get too upset that it rubs them the wrong way.

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

There are no unsavable souls.

Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.