The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

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.

I’ve been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It’s natural.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

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

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

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

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The older you get, the better you get.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

You can’t trust very many people.

Single life is so overrated.

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.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.