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.

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

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

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

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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

I love food.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

In the real world, children love me.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

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.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

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.

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.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

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

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.