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.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

It’s with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

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.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

A lot of people don’t like the road, but it’s as natural to me as breathing.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Don’t feel sorry for me.