The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

Intimates are predestined.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

Like associates with like.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

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.

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

My whole family are hams. They’re storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

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

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

It is amazing how a new child can refocus one’s direction seconds after its birth.

Children make your life important.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

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.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

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.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

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.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

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.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

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.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.