A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

God is life. Life is divine.

The most romantic creation to have come out of regret is time-travel

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Wise is what you want to be. Smart is easy compared to wise.

Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"