Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

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.

What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want.

Though men determine the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip.

My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street.

Use of paper has continued to soar. It is as though paper is taking its revenge on the futurists - not that any futurist has ever lost business because of a wrong prediction.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.