The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

We love things we love what they are.

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 absolutely adore Christmas.

I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.

I love sleep; it’s my favorite.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

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

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

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.

I always wanted to be loved.

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

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

We do not judge the people we love.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

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.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

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

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

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.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.