“Family is the most important thing in the world.”

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

“My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that home explode, too.”

“You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.”

“The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.”

“If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.”

“Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.”

“I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.”

“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”

“Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.”

“Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.”

“Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.”

“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”

“My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.”

“Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.”

“The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.”

“I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.”

“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.”

“One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'”

“It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.”

“Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.”