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.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

It is odd that we have so little relationship with nature, with the insects and the leaping frog and the owl that hoots among the hills calling for its mate. We never seem to have a feeling for all living things on the earth.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

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.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

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

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Let us build bridges, my friends, build bridges to human dignity across that gulf that separates black America from white America.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

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.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

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

I love the women’s movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

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