I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

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

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I know the blessing of having a dad who played 16 years in the league. That experience, and seeing him as an example, let me know that it’s possible. It’s not easy, but it’s possible.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

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.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

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.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‚i’s‘ small.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I love food.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.