My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

There’s been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I’ve always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

I’ve been through natural disasters. I lived down in Miami and was down there for Hurricane Andrew which was a Category 5. There were members of my family that thought they were going to die. Everyone was in the bathtub.

My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.

My mom and I are very close.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‚All the Gods are bastards.‘

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I’m not the most patient of people.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

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.

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

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I wasn’t very good in academics, but I could have been if I could have studied well. I was a smart kid.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

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.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.