What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I kind of love Cole Miller.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

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.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

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

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

Where there is love there is life.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

I’ve been very fortunate.

I give the children education.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

My wife is already in Heaven.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

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.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

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.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.