For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

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.

With relentless pursuit of success comes greatness.

when we're done, I'll be where the night never stopscradling a bruise that's shaped like youwondering why sleep never came to mewondering how I still dreamed

Of course I have a name. All the stars do.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.