The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

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.

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.

The simple practice of hesitation helps you stop reacting blindly to everything that happens.

Every communist has a fascist frown, every fascist a communist smile.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.