To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

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.

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.

When I lose, I drink, and when I win I celebrate.

No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

My mom told me, 'don't grow up too quickly; once you're an adult, you're an adult.'

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game