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.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

Tell the children the truth.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

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.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

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.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

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

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people’s capacity to build and maintain relationships.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

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.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.