I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Giving is true having.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I love life because what more is there?

Love is trembling happiness.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

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

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?