Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

Hate is like zero because true love is not divisible by hate.

I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp.

I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.

Even mistakes can be wonderful.

Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?