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.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

In my experience, many people confuse being cowardly with being nice.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

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.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

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

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

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

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

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.

I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that’s how I got my nickname ‚the Fifth Beatle.‘

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

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.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

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

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

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

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.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

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

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

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

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 parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

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

We will always be a family. Always.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It’s what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.