In the real world, children love me.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Women don’t try to use me.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

When I say I’m going to take care of a woman, I don’t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I’m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I’m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

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

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

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.

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, ‚It’s a Wonderful Life‘ tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.