Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

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.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Writer's block is caused by forcing your will on the Divine.

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

The warrior who's strength is not to fight.

You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

Pursue the thing inside us and others will help us. Pursue the things outside us and others will compete with us.