‚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!

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I just didn’t want to get out there anymore; I didn’t want to get back into what I call ‚the swamp.‘ And the other reason why is I don’t think it’s good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama’s got plenty of critics – and I’m just not gonna be one.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

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.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

There is no such thing as a lovers‘ oath.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I don’t have to ‚freedom-kiss‘ my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

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

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

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.