Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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 never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus.

We are not often against the evils, only because our enemies are against them.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

A babe is fed with milk and praise.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

Failure is... the highway to success.

I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn't been a footballer, I would have been a musician.

The one who has real Faith doesn't need to believe.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems