My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

This is not Johnson’s war. This is America’s war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

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

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

We will always be a family. Always.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose – you drop into a different kind of serious.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

I never fall in love.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.