Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.

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.

That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

We are brothers and sisters. We are one sacred family.

I need to take everything one step at a time. If I think about that too much, I'll miss this amazing experience.

Our problem in money-making or government affairs is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental without making fools of ourselves.

As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.

Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you.

I figure if I just stay true to myself and I am the Whitney that I've always been, people will look at me not as Whitney from the show, but as a human being.

I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.

What e'er thou art, act well thy part.