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

"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.)"

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

"When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos."

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."

"If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go."

"I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller."

"Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet."

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear."