Religion cannot sink lower than when somehow it is raised to a state religion ... It becomes then an avowed mistress.

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.

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

His voice caught. I choose you, Gretchen. Every time, I'll choose you.

To see the miracle you must be the miracle.

Reckless youth makes rueful age.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.