There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Going home helps the content.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

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.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

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

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

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

I never fall in love.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

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

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

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.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

It is a true rule that love is ever rewarded, either with the reciproque or with an inward and secret contempt.

Intimates are predestined.

If you wished to be loved, love.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‚unhappy is the family that contains an author‘?