"The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle."

"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. (Dort, wo man B??cher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen)"

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)"

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."

"A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one way street."

"Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves."

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."

"As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love."

"By learning to obey, you will know how to command."

"Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know."