There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

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.

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.

Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

Style is the essence of man

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.