It is very difficult to tell the truth.

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.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

When you're on your own again, well celebrate your victory for not giving yourself up just to somebody.

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

'Mary Tyler Moore' was - it was my first big hit.

When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.

Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.