A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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.

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

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

Understanding is a two-way street.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

What good am I? I can’t have kids. I can’t cook. I’ve been divorced three times. Who would want me?

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

When you really don’t like a guy, they’re all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they’re no longer interested.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

We will always be a family. Always.

Speak low, if you speak love.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

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

Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

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.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

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.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.