We're asleep until we love.

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.

Make me a shadow on the wall!

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquillity.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

When we are adding to those around us, the world, ourselves, it feels good and right on levels we cannot even consciously connect with.

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

You can only find opportunities if you are looking for them.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.