Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter.

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.

Blackmail threats are e-mails from madmen.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

If were not foolish young, were foolish old.

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

He blew his mind out in a caaaar.

A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.