The pessimism that protests and defends itself cannot be truly said to be pessimism.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.

The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Will I get along with [Vladimir Putin]? I have no idea.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.