I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

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.

Let your Creed be to do a Good Deed. When your Focus is on your Need instead of your Greed, you will succeed.

Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.

That sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself.

Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale yellow balloon letting it go watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

President Obama, by the way, is, I think, making his first presidential European trip. And while he's there in Europe, he plans to fire the CEO's of BMW and Volkswagen.

Certainly take the advice of others but always, always be yourself.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

I'd be happy doing anything on a film set.

Banal ideas cannot be rescued by beautiful execution.