The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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 have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

The power of turning your life around lays in your ability to unleash your personal powers to accomplish it”.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

It is an illusion to think that [EU] states can hold on to their autonomy.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam and it's just as awful as anything else.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.