A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.

We are, all of us, molded and remolded by those who have loved us, and though that love may pass, we remain none the less their work--a work that very likely they do not recognize, and which is never exactly what they intended.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.