I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

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.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

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.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

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.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

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.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

A true man hates no one.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

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.