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

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

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

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.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

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.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

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.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

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.

You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‚I forgive. I’m finished with it.‘

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.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

They do not love that do not show their love.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

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

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

I think that success is having fun.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.