I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

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

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

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

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

War is a contagion.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

My mom and I are very close.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

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

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

If music be the food of love, play on.

The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

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

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

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

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

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

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

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

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

‚Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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