Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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.

Quotes ain’t all that useful. Fact is, there’s more concise ways to express what you’re feelin’, like screams and moans.

You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you.

I honestly never understood how violence against women became a women's issue. 95 percent of the violence men are doing to women.

Eat more beans to produce more gas.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

[There's] this idea of "I want to take care of myself," but at the same time I want to be brave, daring, and expressive.

Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.