Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

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.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

All things must change To something new to something strange.

What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.

Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong

Ambition is at the very core of success and extraordinary achievement. Unlike greed, it's a powerful, creative and constructive force.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.