„Wenn wir wüssten, was Liebe ist, wenn wir sie definieren könnten, hätten wir schon vor zweitausend Jahren aufgehört, Liebesgeschichten zu erfinden. Wir brauchen Liebe, weil wir das Bedürfnis haben, an etwas zu glauben.“

Tagebücher, 1910
Auferstehung, Tagebücher (1852-1910)

Griechische Blumenlese, Zwölftes Buch, S.219, 3., Theognis. Leben und Kunst der Alten, Ersten Bandes zweyte Abtheilung, Ettingersche Buchhandlung, Gotha 1824,

The Shadow of the Wind

Heidenröslein. In: Gesammelte Werke, Vierter Band, Verlag von Lipsius & Tischer, Kiel und Leipzig 1909, S. 185,

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Sir Robert Chiltern
Original engl.: "It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

zitiert in: Walter Isaacson, Kissinger - A Biography, S. 561
As was often the case, Kissinger's attitude toward his Jewishness was reflected in his humor, much of it directed at the pressure on him from "my co-religionists" to forgive any Israeli sin. At the height of his fury at Jerusalem for violating the October 1973 cease-fire and surrounding Egypt's Third Army, Kissinger grumbled at one WSAG[Washington Special Action Group]-meeting,
Original: (en) Any people who have been persecuted for two thousand years, must be doing something wrong.

Original englisch: "If he could have ever been in love with anyone, I think Harry Cohn was secretly in love with me." - in: Caren Roberts-Frenzel: Rita Hayworth: A Photographic Retrospective. Abrams, New York 2001