I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

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.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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

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.

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

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

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Let’s just be smart this time. I’m looking for smart.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

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.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

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

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

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.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.

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

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

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.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

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.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.