God will pardon me. It's his business.

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 outstretched arms found hers, and I was home.

I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.