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 wife is already in Heaven.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

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.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I love life because what more is there?

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.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

A true man hates no one.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Smiles are the language of love.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.