Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

My wife is already in Heaven.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Love is a state of being.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

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

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Life loves the liver of it.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

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.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‚Long Walk to Freedom‘ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.

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

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.