Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

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.

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.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Why work today? I'll take Tuesday on, just like I took Monday off. That's just the kind of dedicated worker I am.

One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

I said, 'Ooh, Dad, I want the yellow ones.' He said, 'Where?' I said, 'Right there, Dad. I want the yellow ones.' Everybody goes, 'Those are green'. That's how I knew I was colorblind.

Time is a snow globe; you shake it and everything changes.

Every character I play is me, always has been.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

'Faith' Him When You Can't Feel Him.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.