For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

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 did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.

Essentially prayer and meditation are one and the same thing.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!

Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.