We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.

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 most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.

We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand.

Inactives-those whose feet are not placed on the path which leads to eternal life.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

Were there certain things that I didn't feel were dignified enough to make it into the movie? Yeah.

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.