It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in 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.

It’s very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.

This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.

If we don't acknowledge and accept where we are failing, then we'll never do the work that it takes to make it right for US.