My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

It is always your next move.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

I’ve never gone wrong trusting my gut.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

He who is contented is rich.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

This is not a bad life.

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.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

I have no delusions about my likability in every scenario. I know that in order to get things done the way you want them, oftentimes your position will be unpopular.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.