All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

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.

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

I have to keep healthy; otherwise, I jeopardise my career.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.