Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

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.

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

Now that I have children, I realize taking care of my children is more fun than anything in the whole world.

He that lends, gives.

I think it's always important to be vigilant of what you're doing and aware of your surroundings.

My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.