Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

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.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

The free lunch has still to be invented.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

The press doesn't like me, because I am a weirdo to them, so they do everything to create their own fictional Kola Boof.

Make a bouquet of the sufferings of Jesus and carry it in the bosom of his soul.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.