True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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.

For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

It was always meant to ease out of a big radio song and flow into the next one. Don't is the bridge song in between Sing and Thinking Out Loud.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness I'm proud!

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.