I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

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

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Love is an interesting thing.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.