You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

A God comprehended is no God. (Ein begriffener Gott ist kein Gott.)

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

If you want to touch the hearts of people you can't do that with newspapers or with radio, you have to do it with TV.

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared, ' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing, ' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Your blessings lay beyond your fear.

A mistake is a stepping stone to success

Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.