What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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.

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

Heaven is high and earth wide.If you ride three feet above ground than other men, you will know what that means.

The words of the Buddha offer this truth: ∼ Hatred never ceases by hatred but by love alone is healed.

Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don't want to see that official status change.

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.