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.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

Where there is love there is life.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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

New roads; new ruts.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

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

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

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

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.