Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

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.

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.

If life were perfect, we would never learn anything. Thus, never appreciate life.

Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Most of my films I call arena films. I deal with a confined area -- an arena -- and I try to cover every aspect of it.

I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.