History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.

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.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

There is no later. This is later.

We stand or fall by television.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives.

To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.

I used to work for 12 or 14 hours at a time but the digital age has made such happy immersions almost impossible.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.