I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

I do not raise brats!

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

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

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

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.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

I’m filthy rich!

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

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

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.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

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.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

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

Where thou art, that is home.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Rap was my drug.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Tell the children the truth.

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

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

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 have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

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