The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

My sister married a German. He complained he couldn't get a good bagel back home. I said: 'Well, whose fault is that?'

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.