We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‚Republic,‘ and then I had to go over that five times or something.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

There is nothing so stable as change.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

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

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

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.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.