Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

I always wanted a family.

My three children have brought me great joy.

I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

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 do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

A song has to take on character, shape, body and influence people to an extent that they use it for their own devices. It must affect them not just as a song, but as a lifestyle.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

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

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

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

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

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.