All happy families resemble one another every 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.

Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

You can't fix stupid. You can't fix a neutered dog you can't fix a garage door and hey, you can't fix stupid