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.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

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.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

‚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!

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.

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

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Children make your life important.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

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

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

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

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

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.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

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

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

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 cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know. Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

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.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

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.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

At home, we must reject the mistaken notion – a notion that has dominated too much of the public dialogue for too long – that ever bigger Government is the answer to every problem.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

My father wasn’t a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher – one of those Victorians, hard as iron – but my dad was tough enough.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.