Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

It destroys one’s nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

You know what, I’m very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I’m just a sucker for somebody that is charming.

Great loves too must be endured.

Nature is not human hearted.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I never fall in love.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Marriage is the death of hope.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.