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.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

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

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

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

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

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Our focus needs to be less on what our legacy’s going to be or how we can control each other and more how we can give to each other.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

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

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Men want to make women happy.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

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

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.