I’m happiest with my family around me.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

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 approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I love America, it’s a much more permissive place.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Love is a state of being.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I always wanted to be loved.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

There’s nothing hippie about my picture of Christ. The Gospels paint a picture of a very demanding, sometimes divisive love, but love it is.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.