Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

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.

Learn to value yourself enough to walk away from the crap in life and never settle for less than you deserve.

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.

To do something good, it has to scare you.

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

There was nothing dark and hidden about Jesus. He was and is the Light of the world, and He welcomed the light.