I can’t think of you and myself apart. You and I are the same to me

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.

The parties with the most gain never show up on the battlefield.

Do not forget to write your sacred book.

May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

A big producer can survive price fluctuations on the world market. A small farmer can't.