"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

"I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartettes, chamber music, and cantatas."

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh."

"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."

"Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney."

"Live simply that others might simply live."

"We might make mistakes but we will make other things too."

"No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it."

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."

"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

"Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity."

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."