What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

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.

Everybody say it's impossible, but I'll try to make it possible

Success means nothing if you don't know who you are. If you don't know who you are then you are not a success.

Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love