The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

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.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

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

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Speak low, if you speak love.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?