But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

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.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

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.

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.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

I do not raise brats!

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.