The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians’ mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.

Just because history says it isn’t possible doesn’t mean that there aren’t exceptions.

They clearly saw their town as the one exception in an area of the country once described as having enough ignorance to support not simply a four-year university but an eight-year one.

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance

The exception proves that the rule is wrong.” That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation, that rule is wrong.

I’m a member of no party, and have no ideology except a very old-fashioned one: liberty.

As a rule, theory does not precede practice. Its role is to structure and codify already proven practice. Its role is to convert the isolated and “atypical” from exception to “rule” and “system,” and therefore into something that can be learned and taught and, above all, into something that can be generally applied.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception.

Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions…. This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself?

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking…the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values—and follow my own moral compass—then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I find myself fascinating

You can’t stop my voice cause you don’t own my life but do what you want with my body.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.