He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

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.

A lion's greater talents are revealed in the jungle, not in the circus.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

Our evolutionary psychology preconditions us not to respond to threats which can be postponed until later.

I can understand how someone might read wearing a blonde wig as a desire to be white, but I suspect that the same shaming smirk can happen if you wear a big afro or any number of other hairstyles.

A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.