Das war ein vorspeil nur; That was only a prelude; dort wo man Buecher verbrennt, Where one burns books, vebrennt man auch am Ende One will also burn people Menchen. Eventually.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Fake it, you will make it. But you have to believe it.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.