I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

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

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.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Some say we should not engage in activism. Instead we should leave everything to our politicians and just vote for a change instead. But what do we do when there is no political will? What do we do when the politics needed are nowhere in sight?

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

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

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

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.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate – there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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.

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

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 mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

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.

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

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

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

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

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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 don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

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.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.