Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

It takes three to make a child.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

It’s disgusting, but my father taught me when your mouth gets dry, just suck the sweat out of your own jersey. There’s no bravado to any of it; it’s just a disgusting little trick.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

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

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

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

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.

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

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Jim Cramer is a very smart man. I watch his show. I just do not follow his advice.

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

My son has died of AIDS.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

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

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

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.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.