Good Luck is a giddy maid, Fickle and restless as a fawn; She smooths your hair; and then the jade Kisses you quickly, and is gone.

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.

I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off.

Each time I reach outside my skin/I just get lonesome for what's within.

Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

I hate walking down a runway in really high heels. I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.

It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.