I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.

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

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

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

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

My mother did not like children.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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.

I never fall in love.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I was a very average player and became a trainer in Germany with a special club.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don’t really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

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.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

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

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

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

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.