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

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

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

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

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

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?

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these ‚how‘ and ‚why‘ questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

Single life is so overrated.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

I was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I am who I am today because of my mother.

My mom and I are very close.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus‘ love.

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

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

We will always be a family. Always.