Stefan Zweig

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.