Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness

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.

Communication is a possibility. Connecting is an ability. Caring is a decision.

Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.

My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

I don't really have an ego. I'm not that bothered.

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?