There is no greatness where there is not simplicity.

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.

… the secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power.

Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.

Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

Dare to dream big dreams. For those are the dreams that have the power to push your whole world forward.

It's hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are.

My house is completely organized from my closets to my drawers.