My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I dote on his very absence.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

Intimates are predestined.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

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.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

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

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

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

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

My mother did not like children.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

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.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.