Faith is the force of life.

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.

Where there is passion, there is possibility.

Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.