I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

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.

It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.

For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.

Any problem can be made clearer with a picture, and any picture can be created using the same set of tools and rules.

I know it's way too Utopian to think we will all ever just hugand love each other- but proactively dealing with hate could be as important to the future as clean water.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.

Will this matter a year from now?

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.