To interpret, to quote – yet only to have witnesses, also friends.

It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Regardless of whether you are a man or a woman, everyone births things into reality.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

I listen to and I play all kinds of music, and I'm interested in jazz and in bluegrass - I like it all - but Cuban music speaks to me in a certain way.

We'll look enough like we do now to recognise each other, identify each other and know each other!

Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.

Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Your thoughts of God are too human