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

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

We love things we love what they are.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I do not raise brats!

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.