I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

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.

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?” “Mmm, ” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?

If you want to retire happy, great health is important. The foundation for all happiness lies in health. Physical, mental, or spiritual health - you must use it or lose it!

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

I write novels and other things.

Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?

Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.