A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

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 legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.

I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.

Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.