All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

All mankind love a lover.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

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

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.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Children make your life important.

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

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

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

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

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.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.