Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

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 sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.who could i love more than this peace?

Knowing why you are is your purpose.Knowing who you are is your style.Knowing what you are is your character

Space is going to be commonplace.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.