As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed – and they’re, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

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

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Love is an interesting thing.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

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.

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!

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

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

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.