A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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 vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

My heart beats for you and the most precious and beautifully fated life we share together.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

Actors are just entertainers, even the serious ones. That's all an actor is. He's like a serious Bruce Forsyth.

You count snouts,” Straha said. “Whichever side can persuade most snouts to join it prevails. It does not have to be clever. It does not have to be wise. It only needs to be popular.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Saving was slow and painful.