And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

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.

You are limitless! Accept this truth and soar to infinity.

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago . . . had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The worldly vision is filled with infinite infatuations and attachments and no one can escape from it

World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

In order to dominate the soul you must also learn to dominate the body. And in order to dominate the body you cannot fear pain.

Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.

There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.