As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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

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

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

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

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

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

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

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.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Who, being loved, is poor?

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.