Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

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.

Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.

I believe in the power of giving.The more you give, the more you get. It is a supernatural cycle.

I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

My favorite place to shop is: any Duane Reade.

Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. —Elana's father