I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

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

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

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

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.

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

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

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.

Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

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.

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

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.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

It’s an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.

My grandpa was a preacher.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it’s like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I’m not fighting. I don’t have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

My mother did not like children.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

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

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.