The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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

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

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

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

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

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

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.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I’m changing into the woman I am meant to be.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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 mean, families are weird.

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

People who work for me know that family comes first. And I’m fortunate to have a family that is very supportive of the work I do, so I don’t have to live two separate lives.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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 brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a little bit of physicality with him. So he disappeared. But I’m not a magician.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

I’ve lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That’s the most terrible thing about being an author – standing there at your mother’s funeral, but you don’t switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

All things are only transitory.

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

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

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

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

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 family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.