Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not.

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 indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

No Alchymy to saving.

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now.

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.