I’ve always wanted a baby.

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.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

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.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

My three children have brought me great joy.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

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

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I imagine I will be less involved in film and be focused more on family and foreign affairs.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

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

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

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

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

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.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

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.

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

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.