The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

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.

They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.