The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

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.

The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity.

Choose your battles, but don't choose very many.

A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.

People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

The respect that I have got is not for Narendra Modi or the PM of India. It is respect for the people of India.

Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.

I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.