We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Hunger is the best pickle.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

We do not judge the people we love.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

I think ‚Dirty Harry‘ was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Going home helps the content.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.