You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

In the future, it may turn out that fossil fuels are the blood of the Earth and by extracting them may lead to serious consequences to the Earth's survival, and by association, that of the humans.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

There’s only so much you can watch someone sacrifice before you realize they’re changing who they are for you, and not in a good way.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

All true stories end in death.

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.