Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

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.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

People always say when they meet me that I’m not what they expect. I assume they think I’m this super dark and depressing guy, but I like to channel all of those emotions into my work.

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

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

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.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

Your friend is your needs answered.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

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 am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.