I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

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

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Life loves the liver of it.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

I always thought about working in England because of the kind of football, the intensity of football. Liverpool was first choice.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

My wife and I love each other very much.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

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

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

We will always be a family. Always.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.