Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.

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 didn't realize she was his everything until he gave her up for everything else.

In my experience, I have found that creativity demands a vigilant mind, which is weakened by the influence of drugs.

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

You are... you're like a beating heart. A glowing lamp. I've never met anyone like you before.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

I wouldn't expect someone who's been injured to hear my side until they felt that I had fully understood the depth of their pain.

When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.