The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

A tiger only needs three things to be comfortable. Lots of food, sleep, and…actually, no it’s just those two things.

It's quite nice to have something where you can be a bit naughty if you have a twinkle in your eye and you can get away with things a bit more and that's what 'The Choice' is about.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.