I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

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.

The grateful heart sits at a continuous feast.

You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

If you keep bashing your head against the same wall, at some point you're going to fall over and be still for awhile.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.

Desire +Stability = Resolution, Resolution +Hard work=success

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

Investing is laying out money now to get more money back in the future.