Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

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.

Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.

Are deepest desires are: someone to understand us, someone to appreciate us, someone to inspire us, and someone to enjoy what we are.

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

Shirley Valentine is a beautiful character and so well written. What Shirley speaks and thinks is so logical

When the world needs someone to do the really big stuff, you need an American.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.