I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

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

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

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

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

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

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

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

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

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

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

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.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

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

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I’m a good son.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

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.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.