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.‘

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

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

Pakistan is not a unified country.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

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

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

Knowledge is power.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

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

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.