Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning 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.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

She told me there was a place on my face she wanted to inhale.

I believe that cinema picks up ideas from society and not the other way round.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

I know guys in my hometown that drive by feel and sound.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Racism doesn't know color, death doesn't know age, and pain doesn't know might.

A song is the most intangible thing in the world.

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.