How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it.

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.

This is your karma. You do not understand now, but you will understand later. The source of pain is within your own larger expression of being.

There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down.

I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.

I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

It is of equal importance with the discovery of facts to know what to do with them.

What attracted us to each other was what we saw in each other in our faith.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.