All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

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.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Where thou art, that is home.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

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

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

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

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

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

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

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

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

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

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

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

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.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

I give the children education.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.