We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

I am a beneficiary of the American people’s generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people’s eyes before you even put out an album.

I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What’s the point?

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

Speak low, if you speak love.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.