It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

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.

And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

I guess that's the business of devotees - to make you think of God.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.

A mortal life with love is endlessly superior to an immortal life without love.

Say exactly what you mean. Enough said.

I work hard. But I play hard, too.

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.