I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

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.

Paperwork wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t for all the paper. And the work.

He had his treasure, but finally all he wanted was his family. And peace.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

There is no escalator to [hockey] success only steps.

I believe that it is appropriate for young people in society to revisit Malcolm's journey and his role in history.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

Even the ignorant may appear very worthy, If they keep silent before the learned.

I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.