The wisest thing my grandpa ever said to me before he died was “Stop!” Thinking back, I don’t know if he was talking to me or the car that ran him over. I prefer to...

The simplest way to enjoy lasting success in life is to strike a balance between your career and family. If one must suffer, never it be your family.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in...

I had a dream about you. Dinner for two turned into dinner for three when you told me you were pregnant. I was excited, but a little nervous, because we were at a fancy restaurant...

Bloodlines and last names didn’t make a man extraordinary — the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were.

He (God) never promises that our families will be safe. Not in the way we think. He does promise his presence, though.

Not only am I not my dad’s favorite child—I’m his only child.

Some people say I look like my mom, while others say I look more like my dad. I guess it all depends on what I’m wearing.

People do that too. Their hair changes color as they age.” I remember that as my grandpa got older, his hair went from green to yellow to red, like a traffic light, only with slightly...

I’ll give you the mother-in-law discount—200% of the 50% off sales price.

Without the family, we are helpless before the State.

Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

I was seventeen, halfway toward eighteen, and I had learned something nobody had ever taught me: Once you get to a certain age, especially if a driver’s license is involved, you can go a whole...

She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. ‘You still have a family,’ she whispers.

Time is a river, and it flows in a circle. I love you.

He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn’t really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds...

We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers.

The point is, you have family and friends who love you. You have a world out there just waiting for you to conquer it. You have a life that will be anything you make it....

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth.

I’d written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one’s own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I’d made a habit–and eventually a profession–of...

There is nothing greater in this world then love. Many things in this world have limits and expiration dates, but love is constant and everywhere. More important, it can take many forms and even when...

Not only had my brother disappeared, but–and bear with me here–a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could...

Losing your family… it puts fear in a different perspective, Chase had once told me.

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot always sustain. I come to crave our talk and our daughters gain precious...

My brothers’ faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seeing the...

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true – you can make excuses or you can make progress, but...

Without fail, he always signed off on these letters with love and he always included Whiskey and Bess in the list of individuals sending this love my way. At the time it made me laugh,...

I sustain myself with the love of family.

When a lost loved one appears before you, it’s your brain that fights it, not your heart.

In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living room where Dad and Jake used to take naps together on the couch; in the sheep...

The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.

Sometimes am so worried,i complain to God that He’s not been listening to my prayers,and then my son comes and says,”hey dad,why are you not mom?”ilook at him and say,God.you’ve already answered my prayers with...

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it bein your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, fromreligion.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband’s, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one’s own relations.

Are you sure that we’re related?” Lydia asked. “I see no resemblance at all.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

You can never please everybody, don’t even try.

When a wise woman speaks, her words are gracious. Ask God to help you find words that speak life to those around you.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

You really are like him, your father.””I can’t tell whether you think that’s good or bad.””What does it matter? It’s simply true.

The inspector had interviewed boys before, boys from the poorest parts of town. He had the habit of not specifying “mam” or “dad” or even “parents.” They were things he knew not every child possessed...

So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it.

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

By remaining constrained in one’s environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which...

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Not really,” says Dum at the same time.

Didn’t you ever have a father yourself? You don’t want him for a reason. You want him because he’s your father.’ So I figured it’s because I never had a father that I don’t want...