The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

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.

I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.

In the end, it doesn't matter how much you earned, but how much you gave away with love.

Fire is fire.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

The trick isn't so much creating the right thing; the trick is finding the right networks.

The romance of the old West vanished so fast and so few ever did anything with it. Does it make you realize the importance of Art and how the main knowledge of history is through Art alone?

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.