Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

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.

Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm the notion that warfare is a disease.

Well, I’m just going to say it.I’m listening, Louis said.I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.

Nothing links man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of a good book.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

too many maniacs not enough michelangelos

Joe Mantello is the uber director. I wrote him a card tonight saying basically, 'Will you adopt me?'

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...the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.

My heart is with Hillary Clinton.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself