An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

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.

They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.

You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.

The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.

Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

In Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!