I believe that the reason of life is for each of us simply to grow in love.

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's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs are on.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

Talking's just a nervous habit.

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.