If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

I always wanted to be loved.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I’ve seen my friends take someone back after they’ve cheated because they fit perfectly.

The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman, because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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.

Sin is geographical.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

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.‘

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

I rely on other people every day of my life.