Is it possible to say what one really feels?

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.

The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

You have to keep on disrupting. If you let up the pressure, then al-Qaeda senior leadership will come back.

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.

It is true that many of the Sea Shepherd crewmembers are inexperienced, but the fact is that these volunteers bring a passion to the project that cannot be found in a hired crew.

We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.

I am more convinced than ever that mindsets toward learning could matter more than anything else we teach.

You can't start at the top.