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...

The prideful man qualifies himself by what people think of him, always looking for applause. There is another proud man; head bloodied by the world but eyes focused on what is good, never caring about...

I love you enough to never make you choose.

Some of us will be long forgotten before we are even dead. Most will never be remembered at all, not even by family.

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...

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...

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...

None of us lives in isolation. We’re in it together. And some conflict along the way is inevitable. But our highest priority, when all is said and done, has to be commitment to each other...

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...

I believe a family can be like that sports team. A successful family wins as a team. But if its members are intent upon winning their own individual battles with one another, the team loses....

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

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.

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

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.

To raise a child is to submit to a staggering amount of work, much of which is deeply unpleasant. It would be crazy to have children if they weren’t so damned important.

I could never leave,’ Pine Sap said. ‘Why?’ she asked.Pine Sap shrugged, and gestured in the direction of the village. ‘Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are my bones.

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

we need a mass of ancestors at our backs as ballast. Sometimes, we feel it’s impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even...

… In our family, if you said the words ‘I feel,’ they better be followed with ‘hungry’ or ‘cold’. Because we didn’t get personal, that’s just how it was.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.

You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children...

For while they’d stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn’t plan this...

I do not believe in God. Instead I believe in the power of Family. And occasionally, when I’m feeling optimistic, in free will. But blood is a force to be reckoned with. God for example,...

…I decided I’d changed my mind about home. Home was not Pensacola San Diego Guam or any of the other places we might have lived. In fact home wasn’t any particular place at all. Home...

It’s so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

I’ve remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they’re actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that...

It was as though everything that mattered was encapsulated in that last moment of my blissful state of oblivion.

Danny couldn’t remember how many times he had driven down this particular stretch of highway.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

Becky was a weed. Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants. People went to all extremes to make them go away. They sprayed poison, pulled until the roots gave way. They felt...

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

The family watched It’s a Wonderful Life, which is a very beautiful movie and all I could think was why didn’t they make a movie about uncle Billy?…Because he was a drunk and fat and...

What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin?Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to.Travis: Or prank.Connor: Or pickpocket. One...

They may already know too much about their mother and father–nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I’ve...

No one have a perfect family, but mine is perfect for me

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat...

Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn’t need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all do.

But my family I had always had a duty to love, no matter how they had wronged me.

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

Sometimes you can’t figure out the truth because you’re asking people that are emotionally or socially invested in you to be brutally honest. Often family or friends will tell you what you want to hear,...

Half of the time, the Holy Ghost tries to warn us about certain people that come into our life. The other half of the time he tries to tell us that the sick feeling we...

The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it,...

Children only know what you teach them.

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore… All of the sudden, even though you have some place to put your...

I know I can’t tell you what it’s like to be gay. But I can tell you what it’s not. It’s not hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life