While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

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.

Smiley tears and teary smiles are priceless.

Come now, Pendragon Princess. You didn’t get dressed up to die, we both know that.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.

The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.

When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.

Morality is not a spectator sport.

Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again.