All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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.

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.

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.

Wer lügt, hat die Wahrheit immerhin gedacht.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).

I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

One difference between a conviction and a prejudice is that a conviction can be explained without getting angry.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth. Heaven is our true home.