She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

To spend life for something which outlasts it.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

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

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

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.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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?‘

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Oh, my mama was awesome. Very strict, overreligious, loved the Lord, loved rules. But she had to be that way because of where we were growing up, the neighborhood I was from.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

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.

My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.