Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

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.

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are already there.

To maken vertue of necessite.

To start with, look at all the books.

In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.

We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen.