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

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

In the real world, children love me.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

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

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

Friends accept you the way you are.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

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

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.