"When you feel victimized or sad, just allow yourself to cry; you'll feel better and have more room to experience joy."

“Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.”

“People have always been animals when it comes to sex. But since the Internet, it's become really out of control, in my opinion.”

“The secret is that there is no secret.”

“Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern forms of nocturnal entertainment we watched the stars. There were practical calendar reasons of course but there was more to it than that. Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”

“I am standing on the seashore. A ship spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean. I stand watching her until she fades on the horizon, and someone at my side says, She is gone. Gone where? The loss of sight is in me, not in her. Just at the moment when someone says, She is gone, there are others who are watching her coming. Other voices take up the glad shout, Here she comes! That is dying.”

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”

“Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.”

“The participation in European elections was always not very exciting. People are very interested in European issues, but they don't see the person who is representing Europe.”