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

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

My work and my family are very important to me.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I dote on his very absence.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

All you need is love.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

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

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

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 am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

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.

Men want to make women happy.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

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!

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

My friends are my estate.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

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.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.