Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

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.

He told her, You are a wise woman. Pleasure warmed her voice. I do have my moments, don't I?

His being famous didn’t give him a right to use her and treat her like dirt.

Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

They always throw around this term 'the liberal elite.' And I kept thinking to myself about the Christian right. What's more elite than believing that only you will go to heaven?

I think our people in Britain have a normative expectation of ethical conduct.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively.

Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.