Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

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.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

Second order effects, such as belief in belief, makes fanaticism.

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

Wherever there is a single solution, that solution must always achieve some kind of maximum.

I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

Do fish get cramps after eating?

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.