One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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.

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

The very end of me mom's road is the back entrance to Bray Head. Usually climb it when I get home.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.