Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

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.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

And like lambs to a slaughter we shall follow.

I think you always have regrets.

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I love you much most beautiful darling more than anyone on the earth and I like you better than everything in the sky.

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches a tripling of the US vaccine schedule.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.