My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

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

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

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.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

Love is trembling happiness.

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

But I’ve got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album’s worth of work as his legacy. That’s all that life allowed him.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?