The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

The earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

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 want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.