Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

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.

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.

Great news is that time is constant and anyone can catch it anytime, but the worst news is that time is transient, and it will not be available to you the next time.

Action gives a decision power and finality.

The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being.

Castes never meant that much to me.

The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.

The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking!

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

I've never been much of a joiner.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.