Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

All men by nature desire knowledge.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Respect the burden.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Love is not consolation. It is light.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

My friends are my estate.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

When people say ‚marriage‘ to me… It’s always a means to an end. Everyone’s so in a rush to define the relationship.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

Love is an interesting thing.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.