The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

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.

Judge little but love much.

While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.

There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.

You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.

People who are humble don't talk too much; they listen.

But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.