In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

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.

I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system.

He that is choice of his time will be choice of his company, and choice of his actions.

Beetroot, garlic, lemon ... and buy a bottle of olive oil. All these things are very critical.

A piece of writing has to seduce the reader; it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

When the inner child finds a guardian angel, publishers are in heaven.