I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

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

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

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.

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

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

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

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

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

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

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.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

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.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

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

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.

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.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

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.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.