In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

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.

Isn't it beautiful when you just stand there right in your track and watch something so amazing, so heart-warming, that you lose track of time and then don't know what to do from there onwards?

Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance.

You can't become a millionaire until you think like one.

If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

I asked a shop owner if he could help me out. He said: "What way did you come in?"

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.