Whatever belief that doesn't make you happier, stronger, healthier or wiser, surely doesn't deserve to be sheltered in your mind.

You can't stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also very abstract, like 'this piece of cardboard is a pool' and so forth.

We should raise the national minimum wage.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.

The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Angela Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

There needs not strength to be added to inviolate chastity; the excellency of the mind makes the body impregnable.

Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.