I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

We can't understand the solutions other people arrive at until we understand the problems they are trying to solve.

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.

Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.

Boys are stupid and girls are trouble.

Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

I enjoy hearing the way people think. I always have.