There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just... wishing. And wishes don't come true.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.

You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

Check-ups are, in my experience, a grave mistake; all they do is allow the quack of your choice to tell you that you have some sort of complaint that you were far happier not knowing about.

I've always love how food preserves a memory.

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

But like of each thing that in season grows.