Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.

Philosophy has forgotten about children

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a little pocket money). In the Terrorverse, it's a plot device used to kill teenagers.

Any truth creates a scandal.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

I’d never known that anyone could kiss in English, kiss in apologies.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.