My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

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 think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. They met at a show where my dad was playing percussion. My mom was a hula dancer.

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

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

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

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

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.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

My mom and I are very close.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

I’m married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it’s one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.