Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

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.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

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

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

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 like school and I like learning.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

The wisest have the most authority.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

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

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

I know love is the answer.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Knowledge is power.