To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

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

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

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.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.