“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don’t back down.

Let’s be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

Leading a family is the hardest job a man can ever have.

I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn’t exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I’m a family man, at heart.

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.