Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

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.

If you have the chance to achieve, do it. Life is about taking a chance on something incredible.

I think it is a good thing that the Trinity is confusing If it weren't, we wouldn't have the desire to learn more.

Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

I have the best job in the world.

Only powerfully conceived images have the ability to penetrate the memory, to stay there, in short to become unforgettable.

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

I want to whisper poetry into your mind and imprint love letters to your soul and dance with you in an empty white room of potential

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.