People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

Some girls look beautiful with no makeup on at all. I call them lazy. Now go throw some war paint on you bleak empty canvas you.

The economy is most important. It is off track.

You can do some serious subway flirting before you realize the guy is homeless.

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’.

For maximum impact, listen more and speak less.

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.