At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I’m still involved, but now I have a family and it’s important to me. 766
My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family. 732
Whenever I have friends over, we end up eating and talking and losing track of time, and, once in a while, singing karaoke. It reminds me of the family meals we had in Russia, which always lasted a very long time. That’s a tradition I miss. 638
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together. 729
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine. 703
There’s something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society. 655
But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life… Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was. 1.25K
I’m lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife. 672
I can’t move back to England. My home is in France now. I’d love to but I can’t. My family’s all there now. 878
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us. 2.27K
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.’ 640
I can’t tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it’s like going to somebody else’s Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you’re there and you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to be doing. 594
My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home – and then watched that home explode, too. 701
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we’re not working hard enough. 708
That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all. 691
Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me. 723
I’m still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family’s experience with it. If I had been able to write ‘The Pura Principle’ back in those days, I’m positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false. 675
