To know God and to live is the same thing. God is 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.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

What we pass on moves forward to future generations. Never let anything important slip through the cracks.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

All the stories are true

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.

There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.