Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

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.

A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

Voters' memories will fade some.

You can't lose. Go, go, go!

When I sign people's stuff I put down John 3:16 and 17.