When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.

We asked for workers. We got people instead.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

There is no art without Eros.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

I have no words for my reality.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

When you are able to love yourself deeply, you can be kind to others.

When a heart mends it doesn't let the same people in twice.

Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

It is a choice, and therefore within the province of economics.

Jews lie as reflexively and unthinkingly as humans breathe.

Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

I say this as the president of the country which has suffered more deaths, more blood and more sacrifices in this war.

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

If you're aware when it's going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you're not aware of it, you'll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.

Ancient wisdom offers . . . a simple yet profound formula to guide everyone who leads, anyone who aspires to leadership: 'Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly.'