The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

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 moment was all we truly had: a succession of moments, a triumphal march of them, to create a life beyond compare.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

I never even dreamt that I'd be in a position to teach other people to speak better.

I will offer thanks for someone who paid a price for offering compassion to me. I will place myself beneath the cross of another who needs my compassion.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

I’d rather have my eyes gouged out. (Urian) If I do that, can the Simi eat them? (Simi) You have to share if you do! (Xirena)