My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

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

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

I always wanted a family.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

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.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

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

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

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.

I was adored once too.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Children make your life important.

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.

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.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.