Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

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.

She's pretty in a familiar kind of way that I forget to notice, until someone else notices and I'm reminded.

Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring injustice must be addressed at Copenhagen in December .

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Coasting only takes you downhill.