He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

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.

They do not love that do not show their love.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

Value is what you get.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

All mankind love a lover.

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.