I didn’t have any children of my own.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

My three children have brought me great joy.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

My mom and I are very close.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

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.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

I’m very free-spirited.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Health consists with temperance alone.

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

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.