I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

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

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

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

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Everyone needs a coach. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

I’ve got a crush on my backing singer.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

My wife doesn’t even want to spend 2 hours with me.

If you are full of motivation as a player, if you are full of concentration, I am open arms.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Going to a therapist is not something you do when you’re growing up as a street kid in Toronto.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.