Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

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

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Going home helps the content.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

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.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I don’t travel with them, but they can’t be missing in my home. There have to always be dominoes… I used to play with my family – dad, my grandpa, my uncles.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

I don’t care about money.

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

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

I get a thrill meeting kids who are into alternative music.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

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.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I think there’s more women that watch me than men, but I don’t look at myself as just a minister to women. My ministry began that way, but I really feel like the Word of God is for everybody.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I love stories about women.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

All my momma’s people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

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

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

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

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.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.