Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

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.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.

The way to the stars is open.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

I'm sure Proust was a big bore.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.