If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.

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.

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.

Be in a close association with your creator, for love will do its best

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

I've been wanting to have my own family since I was young. It just took me a while to find the perfect woman.

He who travels in the Barque of Peter had better not look too closely into the engine room.