Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

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

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

We do not judge the people we love.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

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

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

They do not love that do not show their love.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

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

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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.

I love Brad in every state.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Men who think that a woman’s past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.