The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain.

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.

When you are loving, kind, and true everyone will find astonishing beauty within you.

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Los Angeles is a very special city. It's a great ethnic mix, a great cultural mix.

All actions without love are just like dust in the air.

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

I'm probably better known in the US as a YA writer, I have a huge body of adult horror and fantasy behind me.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

Only psychos and shamans create their own reality