Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

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.

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

Evil is inevitable, ' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

When you fall in love with someone, you're not really changing at all. You're really just reliving something that already happened at some point.

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

If you have the Old Testament at home, if you flip the corner pages, you can see Jesus riding a horse.

My friends and my family are such a massive part of my life. My kids are everything.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your teacher taught you to do in school.

When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.