“What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.”

“The family is one of nature's masterpieces.”

“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”

“When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.”

“I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.”

“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”

“Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.”

“If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.”

“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.”

“My family was my guide to my reality.”

“I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.”

“I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK.”

“We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.”

“Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my 3-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.”

“People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.”

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

“'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.”

“You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.”

“If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.”

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.”

“You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.”