In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.

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.

I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.

But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human.

I lived in Miami for a while in a section with a lot of really old people. The average age in my apartment house was dead.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.