"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
— Heinrich Heine

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
— Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)

"I live, which is the main point."
— Heinrich Heine

""What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking."

"Uncle Tom?"

"I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.""
— P. G. Wodehouse

"From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn"
— Immanuel Kant