If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

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.

I am awake and witness to the beauty that resides behind you're soulful eyes of intent. Become my impaler.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

We're all pretty individualistic.

Hard work is the price we must pay for success

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.