Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

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.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I don’t try to control my days.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Never take anything for granted.

Each day provides its own gifts.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

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

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.