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.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Words are loaded pistols.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

Love is a state of being.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

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

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I love Brad in every state.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

My next baby will be my new record.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

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.

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

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.