I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

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.

I climbed into bed, wide awake and full of dreams.

The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib dude.

Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.