So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

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.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Once I had a love affair with myself.I was left heart broken.

Don't fail to try because this is how winners roll.

Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

Sayles could pull a performance out of a dog. I'm serious. He was just amazing. The world could fall apart and he remained on neutral.

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

Happiness can be a simple thing just like dreaming of someone you've missed for a long time.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Let me just say, as a fellow chick, her hair looked fabulous this morning.