He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

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.

I dote on his very absence.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Intimates are predestined.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

My wife and I love each other very much.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

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

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

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

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.