Knowledge is love and light and vision.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I think ‚The Color Purple‘ is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.