God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

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

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

All you need is love.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Where thou art, that is home.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I always wanted to be loved.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.