The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

They know enough who know how to learn.

I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Fear is real, but so is love.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

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

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

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.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

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

The proper study of mankind is books.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

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.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

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

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

They do not love that do not show their love.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I always wanted a family.

My wife and I love each other very much.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

Intimates are predestined.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.