"My worst day in the gym is still more fun than my best day in the office!"

“Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.”

“I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.”

“Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.”

“My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.”

Source : Der Spiegel Interview, No. 46, 1996.

“Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.”

“Time is our present breath.”

“I met Méret Oppenheim when I was a very young artist just coming to New York. She really liked my early films and showed them in her beautiful old cinema in Bern, Switzerland when I didn't have the money to go back. But, "fear-love," this really means "shy love." It's about holding something back. With Méret, there was nothing oppressive or demonstrative about her affection. It was very soft.”

“Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!”