By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

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.

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

On angel's wings, love flew in.

Successful leaders know how to line up support for their initiatives and create the right environment for change and innovation.

If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

One does not become a guru by accident.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.