Vietnamese Proverb

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

My daughter hasn’t seen me with anybody in five years. I’m very, very selective when it comes to that because I want to make sure that it’s real. I don’t want her to see me with just anybody because she means everything to me.

There are a few things that were just sheer, unadulterated joy, like the birth of my children.

Be nice to your siblings, they’re your best link to your past and the most likely to stay with you in the future.

I learned another thing from the hurt my cousin gave me – never to give that kind of hurt to anyone else. My revenge was to change a bad feeling into a good one. If I’m working with you and I sense you’re feeling a little insecure, I try to make you feel great. That’s how I get rid of my old hurt. If I don’t do that, my hurt grows and makes me mean and vengeful. But if hurt can change to kindness – that’s something Mama showed me – the world becomes a little less cruel.

I was bribing North to wear her butter 350’s by saying they glow in the dark. However, she made me turn off the lights to test it. She caught me lying but Kanye was on speaker phone and said don’t worry I will make them.

We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like, how can you teach her that your in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out into the world. She can’t cut my hair, but that’s her hair. She has got to have command over her body. So when she goes out into the world, she goes out with command that it’s hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them.

My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did my mother. I believe that I just have it from my father, from my parents. They had wonderful energy.

Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness of those without a family to defending our freedom overseas. It is in this spirit of dedication to others and to our country that I believe service should be broadly and deeply encouraged.

Siblings – the definition that comprises love, strife, competition and forever friends.

I was loved dearly by my father but I was never so precious that he didn’t think that I could be in there right at the table.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

You know, it’s the silliness in me. It has always been there. I love to make people laugh. It comes from my family. My family is funny.

[On his mother] She certainly ran her own race… I thought my mother was nuts.