Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

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.

You don’t need to be perfect

It's interesting how much you can tell about someone from their friends.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

Ask God to fill your mouth with the words you need to say today. No issue is so small that it doesn't require God's wisdom.

I'm a talker. I love a good debate.

I think war should be illegal.

This much is true: you have been lied to.

So how's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.