Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

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.

God feels loved when: I prayI read my Bible I ask Him before I do somethingI say good things about HimI introduce Him to othersI want to know more about HimI have faith in HimI make it all about Him

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.

I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.