Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

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.

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

Imagine. Freedom. Always.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Become a teacher. Your country needs you.

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!