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It's a hard job, you know? I prefer to fight. Fighting is easy, being a father is much harder.

I was born and raised in Rogers Park in Chicago. My father sold furniture, and my mother was a Chicago public school teacher and proud member of the Chicago Teachers Union for decades.

When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember how thrilled I was to be in the presence, for the first time, of the prophet of God, President Heber J. Grant, and the other prophets and apostles.

Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

We would not have been a successful family without my father and stepfather, who were working-class men with better dreams for their children. We just wore them out.

When my mother left home, her family sat shivah for her, more because my father was not Jewish than because he was black.

While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so in my 20s I became the sole income earner in my family.

My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only tell others when I wasn't around.

He's been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can't believe how much my dad has matured. Or, 'You wouldn't believe how your dad used to be.' There's always lots of words about how much he's changed.

I was left £50 when I was ten by a fairly distant cousin, which my father invested in GEC shares on my behalf. I became interested in the market and was given some more shares by my father, which is when I began looking to see how the shares were performing and learning how to read company reports, balance sheets, and so on in order to gauge that.

Parents can sometimes become over protective of their children, and that can stop their growth. But the funny part is that when the son grows up to be a father, he will also be the same.

All the movies that my father has produced have some or the other connection with me.

A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.

I refuse to be held up as some kind of superwoman because, in my mind, the superwomen are the ones who do it on their own. I have my partner, who will be a stay-at-home father. I will do as much as I can, but I will have a village around me, and there's lots of people who don't have that.

My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

I am very proud to come from a diverse family. My mother is an immigrant from Japan and my father is from a steel town in Western Pennsylvania. My family spans across the political spectrum.