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

The wisest have the most authority.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It’s a real emotional ride.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Love is trembling happiness.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.