Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

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.

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

We have to restore confidence that the marketplace can deliver services as well as it can goods.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.