I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

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.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

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

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.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I know love is the answer.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

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

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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.

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.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

The course of true love never did run smooth.