God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use 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.

Most people hate successful people for their small little faults rather than appreciating them for their great strengths.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

Fashion will go out of fashion.

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.