"Living is like tearing through a museum...." - Quote by Audrey Hepburn

“If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”

“If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.”

“People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'”

“Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.”

“It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.”

“Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.”

“You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.”

“War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.”

“Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years.”