Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

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

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

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

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

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

Speak low, if you speak love.

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

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

Remember, it’s as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Children make your life important.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.