As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

The ear has to be educated if one wishes to appreciate musical sounds, just as the eyes must learn to distinguish the value of words.