First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

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.

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, "A man who speaks but one language understands none.

How would you like to star in your very own commercial?""I'd rather swim in battery acid.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.

Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

There is nothing wrong with compromising. Even if you compromise almost everything.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.