For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

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

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that’s pretty much all you can ask.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

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

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Life loves the liver of it.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

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.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

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

There’s a big difference between falling in love with someone and falling in love with someone and getting married. Usually, after you get married, you fall in love with the person even more.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

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.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

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.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.