He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

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.

Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.

You were always an annoyingly holy child, Frankie. What the hell was wrong with you?

Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don't have to stay that way.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

If I can be a leader, I will.

I want to live with autonomy. That's the essence of sin.

a man possessed with peace is always smiling

There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.