A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

It’s not possible to stop love.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

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.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Peace begins with a smile.

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.