He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave.

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.

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.

When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.

There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.

A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions.

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

And we believe in his promises. Therefore you can never lose hope - hatikva - because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.