I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

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

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Football is all about fans.

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.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I love being in a courtroom.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Love is the answer to everything. It’s the only reason to do anything. If you don’t write stories you love, you’ll never make it. If you don’t write stories that other people love, you’ll never make it.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Every man is his own hell.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.