The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

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.

Before comparing yourself or your life to others, take a good look at your fingers.

The people living darkness has seen a bright light.

It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

The one who wins all the time is great and powerful, but the one who had been trampled on and fallen is who I admire the most

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?