All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

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.

Think I'll miss you forever, Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.

We are consciousness playing a game with itself to see how it feels.

England is a nation of voyeurs.

You have to watch what you eat.

You can't surprise a man with a dog.

MOTHER (a word that means the world to me)

My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.

Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.