The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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.

New beginnings can be painful ends. What your attitude is changes ends into new beginnings.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

And where does she find them?

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.