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

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Friends are thieves of time.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

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.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

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.

My work and my family are very important to me.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

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.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.