Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.