Children make your life important.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

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 rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

I think hygiene is so important.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

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.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

All you need is love.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

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

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

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.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

I take my sleep very, very important.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

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.

What we live by we die by.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

My mother did not like children.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.