Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

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.

If the waitress has dirty ankles, the chili is good.

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

What if I couldn't read? I wouldn't be able to text my friends movie times or even order cheese biscuits from Red Lobster!

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Once you’re facing the direction of the deep within, awareness enters without a thought.

The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.

And anyone that calls me a sell-out is just jealous.

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.