I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

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.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with $10 million are no happier than people with $9 million.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

There were also other things, but this was a big factor. It's sad, because she [Eve Plumb] was my best friend. We went through a lot together.

My message is, if you need help, ask for it.

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.