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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

My old man is drunker than a barrel full of monkeys, but my old lady she don't care.

My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

My sister is going to have a simple wedding. Just immediate family. And whoever the hell would want to marry her.

My son is 21. He'll be 22 if I let him.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

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

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

My wife gets all the money I make. I just get an apple and clean clothes every morning.

My wife has been my closest friend, my closest advisor. And ... she's not somebody who looks to the limelight, or even is wild about me being in politics. And that's a good reality check on me. When I go home, she wants me to be a good father and a good husband. And everything else is secondary to that.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles.

Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you move away from him. That's how the marriage ends. You are one with your husband until you believe the thought that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That's how you divorce him. Right then and there you have lost your marriage.

Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for office and things.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.