I don't allow myself to doubt myself even for a moment.

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.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.

Tonight I'm stepping lightly and I'm feeling no pain.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.