Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing.

Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction.

You construct your happiness as you construct a house and you have to work on it. It is a daily job.

Reuse is the original green collar job.

A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction

Firmness in support of fundamentals, with flexibility in tactics and methods, is the key to any hope of progress in negotiation.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

Yo, you don't think you're going under? I got a bullet with your name, your address, and your phone number.

I'd much rather win in three or four sets than go the distance all the time. I seem to put everyone through the wringer quite a bit.

I used the name Jane Roe because I didnt want my personal name to be involved in it.

Chance is a second master.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.