I’m married. My wife, Stella – a beautiful woman. She’s brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married – who divorce in three seconds – don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to 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.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

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

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

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

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. I’ve been to some of the weddings. I went to one here the other day, a pagan ceremony.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

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

Silence is the mother of truth.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.