Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to 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.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

I wanted to see the bullet coming, wanted to know the exact moment of my death.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Anyone wanna play Dungeons & Dragons for the next quadrillion years?

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

My worries travel around in my head on their well worn path

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.