You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.

The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

Are we, then, insane because we have not gone mad?

The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."

Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon." ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)

My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'

I was a Jewish rabbinical student for 12 years, and studied the Bible all the time.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

It is difficult to suddenly give up a long love. Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem

If I wasn't a footballer, I would be a virgin

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

Never forget the essence of your spark!

We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.