Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Where love is, there God is also.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

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

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

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

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Love is an interesting thing.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

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

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

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Going home helps the content.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

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

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

I make friends faster and easier than journalists.

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

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.