It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

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

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

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.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

In married life three is company and two none.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

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.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.