The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

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.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can go only so far but faith has no limits.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

If Hillary Clinton had won and if my people went out and protested, everybody would say, "Oh, that's a terrible thing."

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

By walking, I found out where I was going.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young

We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it was a bit of an adventure, to say the least.

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.