Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for 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.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Real communication happens when people feel safe.

Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue.

We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.