I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

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.

Faith is a flaming light.

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Your closest and your most dedicated fans will be your ultimate test. They will test you.

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

Mind is never a problem. Mindset is

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.