Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

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

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

All men hate the nagging.

MySpace is my wife… Facebook is my mistress.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

Disagreement is something normal.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.