In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

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.

Life is not a hotel. Life is a battlefield.

It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

People do not retire. They are retired by others.

It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

Life seems to be busy for most people and if you know you are doing the best you can then there really is nothing more you can do then that.

By 2020 the U.S. will be short 91,000 doctors. There's no way we can educate enough doctors to make up that shortfall, and other countries are far worse off.

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints.

I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.

I work three months really hard, nonstop, and then I take a month off. Then I do it all over again. I work hard but I give myself four breaks a year.