Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

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.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Truth is created, not discover!

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.

Consciousness does affect matter.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

You can't fake anything. If you're honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.