Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Everybody has a purpose.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal’s ‚Pensees‘ and read, ‚I am the great silent spaces between worlds.‘

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

If you give a person a fish, they’ll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they’ll fish for a lifetime.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven’t quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

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.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

We do not judge the people we love.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.