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

"One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."

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

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

"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession)"

"All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown."

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

"War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied."

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

"I didn't lie--I was writing fiction in my mouth."

"Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men."