I know love is the answer.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Knowledge is power.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

I mean, families are weird.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Never complain. Never explain.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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