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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Where thou art, that is home.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

Life is anything but predictable.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

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

There are many things that I don’t understand.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The wisest have the most authority.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.