There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

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.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

I think every writer has a little freak in ‘em.

Either you run the life

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'

A poem is no place for an idea.

The number is less than that of 2004, but major fatal accidents have aroused considerable public discontent.

I have always shouted from the rooftops about my businesses but I had never ever spoken about my personal life.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

Thank you to Italy. That is a crazy country but beautiful.