My work and my family are very important to me.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

My mother loved children – she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.

No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it’s in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Regarding marriage, it – somehow, it didn’t happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago – by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

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.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

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.‘

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

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

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

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

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

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.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

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

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.

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.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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

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

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

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.