Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

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.

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

The first boy I fell in love with didn't know I loved him, but he managed to break my heart anyway.

I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."