To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all.

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light.

To ignore your conscience is to invite trouble.

To have grown wise and kind is real success.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love.

The elements of love, devotion, loyalty I have found in the words, never found in humans. That is why I never truly loved.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want youI'd be lying if I said I didn't wish you were mineThe truth is, you stole my heart from afarThe truth is, you still have it.

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

A man's fate is his own temper.

Everything in a wide sense is a kind of a self-portrait. It's just the way you see things and you're curious about certain things and just excited about them.

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Honestly, my character doesn't have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he's an unlikely hero who's thrown into a huge situation.

I'm German, after all.

This is why you must love life: one day you're offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you're using the word calve as a verb.