"With my toes on the edge, it's such a lovely view."

"When a nation is invited to join in a union with another, the ignorant, bedazzled statesman might rush into…"

"I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is …"

"Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and…"

"In regard to Germans and foreigners, I esteem foreigners no better than other people, nor any worse. They a…"

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it,…"

"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness tha…"