My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

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

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

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.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

I’m not really book-smart.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

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’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

I like being with my family. That’s my party.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we’ll fail, and sometimes we’ll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you’ll find support.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.