To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
My goal has always been to just kind of show how my family, we might be a different culture, but we're completely like everybody else.
Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one's family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.
Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.
My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.
I have those moments with my kids and family where we try to unplug and just be in the moment. We put everything else to the side and just be there with our family.
What I learned at Miramax is that if you see where extraordinary creative talent can be brought into the family, move quickly, because if you don't, someone else will.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.
I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.
