Tel Aviv appeals to me.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

I would have kept you safe, ' he said.I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers. 'I know.

If you're doing it right... you should feel while you're doing it that you're revealing a little too much of yourself.

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

Working for President Nixon was the most extraordinary professional experience of my life. He was endlessly fascinating: brilliant, visionary, kind, generous, warm, funny - and yes, a good man.

Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

Pleasant words are the food of love.