Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I’ll die a crazy old man!

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

If there’s a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it’s not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there’s a house rumor, they’ll find out it’s not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

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.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

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

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Freedom without limits is just a word.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Where love is, there God is also.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

Science is but an image of the truth.

We loved with a love that was more than love.