This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end

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.

It’s best to have a small boat of friends where everyone rows than an ark of friends where no one does. At least you’re getting somewhere.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.

We surround ourselves with the true image of ourselves.

Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward’s. I touched the cool miracle of his skin, and I was home.

‎"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.