My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

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.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

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

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

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.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

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.

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.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

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

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

Money for me today does not really matter.

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

Children make your life important.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

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.

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.

My son has died of AIDS.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

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

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

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

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.

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.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

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!

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn’t afford to pay attention.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Money often costs too much.