He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

I love life because what more is there?

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.