Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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.

My memories are like a shuffled deck of cards, each one coming up at random.

She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

We want our students to be the students we want to teach.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity.

Settle this issue in your heart. The Holy Spirit is always positive, and Satan is always negative.

Only the chaste are truly obscene.

You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.