Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.

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.

Skulduggery stood among the ruins of what had once been a sofa. Valkyrie raised an ey

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.

Many a person has held close throughout their entire lives two friends that always remained strange to one another because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity the other by difference.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.