The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Little things affect little minds.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

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

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

I think the word rich is all relative.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

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

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.