I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is impor….

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of th….

A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog..

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it..

Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we have in our culture. When we play, we giv….

In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. Fi….

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a pr….

Writers will happen in the best of families..

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk..

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in..

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third..

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society..

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out ho….

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies..

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy..

If you’re a part of my family, I will love you violently..

My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk. I didn't know his heart was broken, and not another word was spoken..

With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and….

The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love..

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work..