Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

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.

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

I want someone who can trust that my big hands are going to take care of them.

All men hate the nagging.

‚The Story of Us‘ is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, ‚Is this killing you? Because it’s killing me.‘ But I didn’t. Because I couldn’t. Because we both had these silent shields up.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

My mother did not like children.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

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

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

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.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.