Silence can be defined as conversation with an Englishman

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.

Things are not as easily understood nor as expressible as people usually would like us to believe. Most happenings are beyond expression

A totally befuddled voter may look at a Vote for McGovern sign and do just that.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

I love being a mum but I do love to work too.

Exercise is for people who can't handle drugs or alcohol.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

I want to make music that I know that ten years from now, you can put it on and say "This is a great record".