Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

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

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

The less you know, the more you believe.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Children make your life important.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Great loves too must be endured.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don’t need another plaque.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

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.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.