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

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

Love can do much, but duty more.

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

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Women – always in trouble with them, but can’t live without them.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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.

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.

I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.