Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

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

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

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.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

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.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

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.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.