My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I can handle pain.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

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.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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 have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

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

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

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.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

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.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

I’m so tough and so bad, I can be humble and lift another guy up.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

My mom and I are very close.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

That’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.

We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

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.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

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

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

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

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.