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

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I’ve always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

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.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

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.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

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

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You’re not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

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.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.