Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

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.

Not enough, " he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it wont be enough.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

Omaha is a little like Newark, without Newark's glamour.

I'm chasing perfection.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

I'm a private person.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.