I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I love the sea.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

The way to know life is to love many things.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

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.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

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

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

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

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

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

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.