The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this 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.

You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations

The douchiest thing a guy could do on a date is to make a girl pay. If you invite her out and then make her pay.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

There’s no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.