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.

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

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

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

The best football is always about expression of emotion. Always.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

What one fool can understand, another can.

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.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Life loves the liver of it.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

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

You can see neurosis from below – as a sickness – as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.