I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Take my wife… Please!

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

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.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

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

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.