When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

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.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.