I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

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

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.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

How can we help President Obama?

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

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

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

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

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

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.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?