The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in 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.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

Can angels lie spine to spine?If not, how they must envy us humans

There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

My relationships have been well publicised in the past but I am just a normal guy, really.

I am a writer of fragments.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

If we can put together a Mexican businessman and a U.S. businessman, they will find a way to do more business.