All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country... and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.

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.

Feel da power swallow you whole. Let go an’ lose yo’self in it.

Go to bed early get up early-this is wise.

Faith is a gift of God bestowed as a reward for personal righteousness.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

I would need to display great restraint, but we've got to have toughness.

Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

The whole creation is the dance of one consciousness

If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.