Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.

I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.