"Despite all the unresolved deep-seated problems, the U.S. is still a country where it's less important where you come from than what you do. But after 18 years of living here, I still have a German passport, a soft spot for the avant-garde and constructivists, and a heavy accent."

“Coaches have the worst hours in the world. They go home maybe twice a week. They're sleeping in their office. They're watching film. It's a brutal, brutal job and that's why I respect them so much.”

“When people affected by epilepsy are reluctant to expose their condition, the public remains in the dark about it - a tragic irony that has made patient care and raising funds for research more than challenging.”

Source : "Help Us Bring Epilepsy Out of the Shadows" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

“it is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them ...”

“I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.”

“Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.”

“Men's hearts are cold. They are indifferent.”

“I never had any ambition to do anything commercial, anything journalistic. I wanted to be an artist, and I wanted to be an artist whose work was done in the medium of photography. It may be debatable to this day whether I ever succeeded in achieving that ambition, but the point is, I never had any uncertainty about that.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu

“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.”