Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

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.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.

There are a lot of different things that are spinning and connecting when your family sees what you do.

Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best.

I can't count how many pairs of Converse shoes I own.