The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

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 have a hobby. I have the world’s largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you’ve seen some of it.

Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad or a stimulant

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

The truth hurts, but those lies heal.

I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.

Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.