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.

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.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Where there is love there is life.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

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 is not consolation. It is light.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It’s always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It’s just a special place.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

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.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

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

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

It takes three to make a child.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

If you wished to be loved, love.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.