Photography is a witness against the mistaken opinion that art is an imitation of nature.

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.

Good isn't obsessed to win ButBad is destined to lose

It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.

In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.

Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.