We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

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

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

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

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

‚Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

I love food.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

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 love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Speak low, if you speak love.

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

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

The soul is healed by being with children.