My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

I let the American people down.

Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

Lost time is never found again.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

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

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

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

It takes three to make a child.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

To me, if you’re trying to impress a girl, get a date, they’re gonna like that more because you’re a confident guy. That’s what it comes down to.

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.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

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

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

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.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They’re worth it.

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

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

To be social is to be forgiving.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.