‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

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

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

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

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

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

Love is an interesting thing.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

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.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Whatever the reviewers feel about ‚The Casual Vacancy‘, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

If he invited you out, he’s got to pay.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can be very different.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

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

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.