Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God. That union can only be severed by a crime, and a crime of that nature brings its own chastisement.

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.

Whatever success you have had, whatever victories you have experienced, whatever you have done so far in your life is only a fraction of the potential within you

People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

That’s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.