Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

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.

Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.

Kind words are sweet to the soul.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

People want to bring kids to their level, and they want to make it seem like kids have this thing. It's seen as funny to them.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

A failure teaches you that something can't be done-that way.