"I’ve learned a hard lesson beginning when I was pretty
young - 19 or so, and that is nobody is going to wait around for long
unless there is some sharing, something between you that bonds emotionally, be
it just the fun, sense of humor, or having something in common to share. So I
try to give back something that they need, want, in my
relationships - it makes it so much better for both of us and I enjoy
knowing that they understand I’m not just using their time for amusement. It’s
nicer when I take the time to get to know them, to understand where their head
is at and build up a sense of caring, of loving that person. That’s what it’s
all about really, loving each other."
"I feel that if you can’t control sex - the
physical impulse for sex - then you can’t control anything in your
life. You cannot let your body - it’s desires - rule you.
It cannot master your mind, your heart. If you allow it, then all is lost. Sure
I have desires...but by damn, I am the master of my body. I am the deciding
factor and I rule. The day comes that I can’t, then I’m dead. There is more
to life than flexing muscle and I intend to follow a code of honor in my
life - that’s important. My self-esteem, my feelings of self-worth
and living with my heart and conscience. Life is too short to waste in vain
regrets." ~ ELVIS
"Elvis was faithful to me during our marriage. I cheated
on him. He passed a lie detector test and until he learned of my indiscretions,
Elvis never cheated. Only after I left him. Elvis was a loving, sincere man who
respected his home and family. His career took him away from us and being so
young and naive I thought wrongly that he just didn’t care anymore. Had I
known then what I do now about this business, I would have been more patient,
more able to help him."
~ Priscilla Presley, from a California local TV show in
1987
"She was the best thing to ever happen to
me - her and the baby. It’s a hell of a thing that one person can be
so-so satisfied and then find out that it was all a lie - that the
other person was unhappy and dying inside all that time - just putting
you on for so long."
"I guess my favorite one (memory) now is when Lisa was
born - when I first held her, you know? She was so-so tiny-precious
and beautiful. I know all babies look beautiful to their parent, but she was-was
special. I guess because I realized she was my child - mine to care
for and-and it was a special feeling. It was that I realized it wasn’t just me
anymore - or Cilla. It was us - and they depended on me. I
liked it."
"People in love they say, always tend to overlook the
loved one’s faults, but I think it’s more that they see them and love them
too much to let it bother them. That to me, is what love really
is - being willing to accept each other for what you and they are,
regardless of flaws or inconsistencies, loving in spite of, instead of because
of another’s ways."
"You know, if you look into your child’s eyes and they
look back at you, you can easily see what trust really is - and it’s
scary, because they have such perfect love, without question they have
faith - and that’s what we have to have, that kind of faith, when
looking into our Father’s eyes. Perfect trust - as a little child.
It must be why God gives us children, as a teaching tool. A pity - is
that so many parents don’t take the time anymore, to really look into their
child’s eyes." ~ ELVIS
"I promise to be a father to my baby as long as I shall
live; to love the Lord thy God with all my heart and soul and body, as best I
can; to wish happiness for Priscilla; to hold no malice against no man as long
as I live; to sing with the utmost of my ability, and bring happiness from
singing and laughter, with love and joy." ~ excerpt from ‘The Promise’,
written by Elvis at the time of his divorce, in 1974
In a television interview after Elvis’ death, Priscilla
Presley revealed the words Elvis had whispered into her ear when he hugged her
in the courtroom that day of the divorce proceedings: ‘for always and ever’.
