Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

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.

My balls shrank in terror. I was convinced we were going to die.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

Either way, we'll ride out together. That's how it is with soul mates. Thats just what they do.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

He said that black sheeps express everyone else's anger and pain. It's not that they have all the anger and pain-they're just the only ones who let it out. Then the other people don't have to.

This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell.

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.