The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

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.

Feel your emotions, Live true your passions, Keep still your mind.

Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts.

Every day, in which you exist on earth, be filled with deep gratitude.

When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

If we had no language we'd have nothing.