Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. 726
Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. 794
Since I’m always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family. 2.23K
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. 1.4K
The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family. 727
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. 662
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, ‘Don’t you want to have a normal job and a normal family?’ I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act. 751
It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family. 662
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. 615
My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you’re fortunate – and both of us are – you come from the kidding kind of Irish family. 580
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time. 646
I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what’s the point in life? 682
If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along – whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. 2.49K
God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. 682
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps. 630
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin’ wealthy. 668
