You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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

The way to know life is to love many things.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

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.

Children make your life important.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Love is only one of many passions.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

My wife and I love each other very much.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Great loves too must be endured.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

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

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

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

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.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?