I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.

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 quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

I am a Christian, but I also dont really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

The key issue when you're looking at cost cutting is to always plan for the future.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.