The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity.

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.

Others are responsible for their actions toward you, but you are responsible for your reactions. Always be considerate and kind with your actions.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.

If you can't get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you're in the wrong business.