Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

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.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

**** the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

Biology transcends society.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.