Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

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.

The thing about denial is that it doesn't feel like denial when it's going on.

Sherard Blaw the dramatist who had discovered himself and who had given so unstintingly of his discovery to the world.

I wish medical schools helped us to analyze our healthy and unhealthy reasons for becoming doctors.

We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.

I prefer being totally sober myself.

Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.