If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

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

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

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.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

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

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

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.

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

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

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 do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

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.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.