I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

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.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

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.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don’t have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

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

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I’m willing and I’m eager, and not just about my writing – I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don’t see themselves as doing work that is demeaning.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

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

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

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

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

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

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world – but it doesn’t happen twice.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

The course of true love never did run smooth.