I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

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.

And this I know whether the one True Light Kindle to Love or Wrath consume me quite One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.

When you cross a bridge, try to touch it with your hand! That will be a symbolic gratitude for the good service it gives to us!

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

I'm very fortunate, and I know that.

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

I resent the limitations of my own imagination.