Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

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

I was adored once too.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

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

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

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

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

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

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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Intimates are predestined.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

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.

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

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.

I dote on his very absence.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

My wife is already in Heaven.

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.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

My three children have brought me great joy.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.