Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

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.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Where love is, there God is also.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

If you look at the movie ‚Belly,‘ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Children make your life important.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

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

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country’s ruin!

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Intimates are predestined.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration – not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.