Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

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.

The difference in the quality of life between people can be found in the quality of the questions they ask themselves

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

There is nothing more important than hard work.

For me, almost always, the answer was cake.

If you fall, the truth will set you free. And when your heart can see just one thing in this life, we'll set out on the journey.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.