You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

Everytime you fall, you fly for a second.

Love does as it undoes. It goes after with equal tenacity: joy and heartbreak. Her happiness was his unhappiness and that's the unfair way it was.

...you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.