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

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Children make your life important.

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!

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

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.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

You don’t carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

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.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

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

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

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.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I’m from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

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

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

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

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

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

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

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.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

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

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

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.

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.

We will always be a family. Always.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.