Honest work is much better than a mansion.

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.

It was a brave old world.

But I can't confront the doubts I have.I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentumI'm condemning the future to deathso it can match the past.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?

Life is short and the nights are long, and tonight I moved on.