“The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.”

“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”

“Nature is neutral.”

“A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.”

“Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t.”

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.”

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”