Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

You can write a song about being in love with someone, but you don’t have to be in love with anyone.

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

I mean, families are weird.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

Work alone is noble.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

Smiles are the language of love.

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.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

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.

Some people love so hard that they can’t control those emotions when they’re at their deepest point.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Love is the one wild card.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.