Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .

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.

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal. I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal.

Very little mathematics has direct applications - though fortunately most of it has plenty of indirect ones.

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.