Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

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.

Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

There's no great person that lived that didn't go through scrutiny or ridicule and prosecution in all types of ways, to be who they are in history.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

Let those who like society better have it.

There is plenty of Hühnerfleisch in the Kühlschrank. (There is plenty of chicken in the fridge).

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble.

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.