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

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

My mother, my grandmother, my uncles would play Ethiopian artists like Aster Aweke and Mulatu Astatke all the time in the house.

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

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

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

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

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.

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

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that’s all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn’t Mama. Now I’ve bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

She would have thrived as a grandmother. I know how much she would have contributed to their lives, and I am sad they will miss out on that.

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.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

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?

My son has died of AIDS.

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 was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

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

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

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

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

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

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.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I mean, families are weird.

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.

My three children have brought me great joy.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘