When we do not love, we sleep, we are children of the dust - but love, and you are a god, you are pure, as on the first day of creation.

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.

This isn’t a church social, Sweetheart. You aren’t going to be able to save me this time.

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

You know what I ask Jewish liberals? 'Why don't you preach what you practice?'

I have great respect for the people in intelligence and CIA. I don't have a lot of respect for in particular one of the leaders. But that's OK. But I have a lot of respect for the people in the CIA.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

I always loved the idea of a spy movie and part of it came from my personal love of spy movies. It started when I was growing up as a little kid in the 60s.

Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?