It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew?

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.

WORDS HAVE NO EXPIRATION DATE

Leash the anger on purpose.Unleash it when falling apart.

One thing I have in abundance here are bags. They're not much different than kitchen trash bags, though I'm sure they cost $50, 000 because of NASA.

A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it.

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

A student of mine is an actor, he used to go into these interviews and sometimes not get the part. He was "taken out". Someone would use power in a way that would cause him not to succeed

I've recently learned not to take things personally. We can get offended by anything if we want to.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?