As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

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.

Love is the dance of the spirit on a stage called heart with the songs of mind to satisfy our eternal desires to belong.

The culture the leader creates impacts the feedback a leader receives.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.

I try to get up every day.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

If you do not like Real Estate, all you have to do is make hamburgers, build a business around that hamburger, and franchise it.

I'm always interested in are stories that challenge people.

Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.