No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I dote on his very absence.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

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

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

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

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Laughter is America’s most important export.

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

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

All you need is love.

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

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

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

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

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.