Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

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.

There is no wall strong enough that love and kindness can't reach through.

In that hurry to achieve, I've left little time for self-reflection. And I'm not sure I'm ready for it.

I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and eloquently as I can do it.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

It's only that ye looked so beautiful, wi' the fire on your face, and your hair waving in the wind. I wanted to remember it.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

I just have to be very, very organised.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

You can wear one thing one day and go the other end of the spectrum the other day. There are no rules and such, so long as you're comfortable and you have fun and are yourself.

If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you