He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

When one has finished building one’s house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way – before one began.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

The cautious seldom err.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

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

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.