On sorrow floats laughter.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Why have we books in heaven?""Why not?" asked my brother. "What strange ideas we mortals have of the pleasures and duties of this blessed life!...

Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Enlightenment is getting off the wheel. Enlightenment is to become pure awareness.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

We are all older and more tired.

The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree.

If you are a middle manager avid to begin a quality initiative in a company ruled by an executive from the old school, look elsewhere for a job.

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.