My schedule can be hectic, so I’m always trying to find time to see my friends and family.

Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don’t care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just… survive. Outlive me, please.

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

I love you enough to never make you choose.

Mungu alimpa kila mmoja wetu vipawa na vipaji vya pekee kwa ajili ya huduma yake. Kazi yake kwetu hapa duniani ni kutumia vipawa na vipaji vyetu kwa ajili ya huduma ya watu wengine. Kila mmoja...

Familia yako haikusaidii chochote katika mipango ya takdiri yako. Hii inasikitisha sana. Unajitahidi kila siku kuwafurahisha watu unaowapenda na watu wako wa karibu. Kila ukijitahidi kupata kibali cha watu unaishia kudharaulika na kuonekana mjinga asiyekuwa...

It’s not about saying your sorry, or expecting me to forgive you. It’s about showing love and respect to the people in your life each day you get to breathe. It’s about taking responsibility for...

He taught us that everyone has a good story and the more of others you understand, the better your grasp of human nature, a gift given great weight in my family.

I hated this love that I had for my family—love that demanded my time and energy, that sought to control my life down to every thought and action.I now realize that it was not love...

Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can’t see it.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

Family is a life jacket in the stormy sea of life.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

Being wise and being smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be called wise.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don’t allow you to live and Oxygen don’t let you die.

Rod Cockshutt, Professor Emeritus at N.C. State University called my book, Evidence of Insanity, “an extraordinary achievement” and told me to not change the last 10-15 pages no matter what.

He reasoned, even as a young man, that traditions may linger as he walked though the oracles of time. In later years he thought his mind may one day blur, should he survive to an...

When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone – there are many, many other things to be considered.

We want to climb in with you,’ Dermot said. ‘We’ll all sleep better.’That seemed incredibly weird and creepy to me – or maybe I only thought it should have. I was simply too tired to...

While you’ve been gadding about the countryside, we’ve held a meeting, and we’ve all of us decided that you must go.’In short, we’ve voted you out of the family,’ Daffy said. ‘It was unanimous.

Don’t you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don’t want to see you again.

We went our several ways,” said Lady Dedlock, “and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Academic failure contributes to poverty and poor health and undermines workforce productivity in ways that harm the entire society.

Home’s where the people you love are. It’s about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them.

Frankly, accepting the family’s unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

I sometimes heard the parents of Michel’s playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really needed “a moment to themselves.” The children were in bed at last, and then came the magic moment,...

There was always a big party on the night before anyone left for the States. They called it an American wake, because the whole community stayed up to keep the emigrants company through their last...

Makes a diff’rence, havin’ a decent family,’ he said. ‘Me dad was decent. An’ your mum an’ dad were decent. If they’d lived, life woulda bin diff’rent, eh?”Yeah, I s’pose,’ said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed...

fans are just friends and family I haven’t met… or wrote about yet

To all my readers. I don’t need my daughter’s okay to do anything. I was a writer before she was my daughter. The CRANK books were inspired by my desire to keep others from following...

I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I’m not sure if I know any ‘functional’ families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don’t have a full range of problems.

I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.

We wanted a family so bad, all of us. And we just grabbed each another and made us one. Simple as that.

Being real is being true to you.

A sister should set her brother up with one of her friends, unless her only friend is her sister.

Women were created gullible. It they weren’t no babies would be born.

Ironically, girls who don’t think so much about their family and are a little bit self-centred are not only happier themselves but also maintain good relationships with their families.

It doesn’t matter where you’re at, when you’re with people you love, you’re where you belong.

I’m an only child, so logically I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me they wouldn’t be parents at all, they’d simply be a married couple. (Or maybe without me they...

Being a parent is apparently more than most men can handle. This is transparent to even the tiniest child.

I’m the oldest of twelve brothers. However, the other eleven are yet to be born.

I found out who my real dad is on Facebook. I also found out who he isn’t. He isn’t the man I thought he isn’t.

I’ve misplaced it all, but I can’t seem to lose my brother. It’s a priceless gift–to have his love at a time when I’ve done nothing to earn it.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God’s own heart.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest...

You’ve all been so sure that life is good that I’ve never been able to disbelieve it. Never will be able to.