Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

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.

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty4 to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Yeah, because when you’re attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you don’t act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.

When I get too worked up about things I have always escaped into catatonia.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

Science differs from politics or religion, in precisely this one discipline: we agree in advance to simply reject our own findings when they have been shown to be in error.

But we'll stumble on, she and I, into our messy future. And we'll have each other.