I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‚our‘ country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Understanding is a two-way street.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I love to flirt, and I’ve never met a man I didn’t like.

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

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Women don’t try to use me.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

When I get married, it’ll be no secret.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Everyone has been in love, at some point or another.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

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

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

All men hate the nagging.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.