We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults until we at last come to look upon them as virtues.

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.

That door had a lot to say, people entered and people left but never the same!

Gratitude has the power to fill your heart with love and your life with abundance.

I didn’t know what

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.