Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.
The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.
There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach; it is philosophy without fear.
A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.
You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt.
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.
Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.
I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.