You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

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.

All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!

I have confidence that my prayers are answered because I sought God's will before I asked.

Did she want him as badly as he wanted her? Did she realize he was slowly going insane for wanting her?

Sports saved my life.

What is it that you most fear hearing about your work?

In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past