My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone.

I can not tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it is like going to somebody else Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you are there and you are not quite sure what you are supposed to be doing.

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

One, if you attack my integrity, I will defend myself. If you attack my patriotism, I will defend myself. If you come after my family, I will counter-attack viciously, I will destroy you.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.

I am a strong person, I am a strong family man, I am a strong husband and a strong father.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I am from a lower middle class background all my family were immigrants.

In my particular instance, I came from a family that did not have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one sacrifice and service.

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.

I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

I have to make it my job to be careful with my family.

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you are 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.