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

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!

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

When I don’t feel free and can’t do what I want I just react. I go against it.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

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

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

Where thou art, that is home.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

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

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

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

Well, it’s looks like I’ve a love-hate thing going on with Monaco.

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.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.