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.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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

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’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

Nothing recedes like progress.

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

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

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

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

I always wanted a family.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.

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.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

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.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

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.

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?‘

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

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

You can’t do something forever.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

The status quo sucks.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

I mean, families are weird.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

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

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.