One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees...

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.

Money solves nothing but it eases everything.

..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...

I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot.

Sometimes I write well when I'm very upset.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

I'm starting to realize I can't practice a certain way during the week and expect to play another way on Sunday.

It is very difficult to stop feeling.