My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

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

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I always wanted to be loved.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Smiles are the language of love.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

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

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

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.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

To every soul that knows how to pray, to every soul that by faith comes to Jesus, the true mercy seat, divine sovereignty wears no dark and terrible aspect but is full of love.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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

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

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.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.