Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

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 must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools

Continuously, in commemoration of the FriendWe drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there?

In essence, the education department argues that the quality of the education children receive is irrelevant, as long as someone stands in front of the class.

We need happy, productive citizens on our planet for us to survive.

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.