"Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright."

“I don't think that [Hillary Clinton] can turn around her honesty and trustworthiness problems with one speech, but she could present herself tonight as more relatable, give people a glimpse of that warm, funny woman the people who meet her in small groups and one-on-one say that she is.”

“The life of any musician really doesn't fall into a normal schedule at all. Every week there are different rehearsals, different days and nights of performances, so we don't have a particular pattern that we can follow. For a conductor, it is a little bit worse because we have to allow for traveling.”

“The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.”

Source : "Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy". Book by Werner Ulrich, 1983.

“I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.”

“It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.”

Source : Interview in Discover magazine Vol. 27, No. 07, July 2006.

“It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.”

“There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?”

“We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.”