My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

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've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

This was the kind of kiss you remembered when you were a very old lady with a very poor memory.

Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

Basically all I've done is keep my promise.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.