Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

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

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I always wanted to be loved.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Time discovers truth.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Where thou art, that is home.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I love the sea.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

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

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.