The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.

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'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.

The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

I am much more intelligent than you think.

I don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

A modest person seldom fails to gain the goodwill of those he converses with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself.

I had written two cookbooks, and they had done well, but I wanted to move to fitness, because it's big with me.

I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'