As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

To enjoy good health to bring true happiness to one's family to bring peace to all one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid the only time I sang was around my family.

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.

Like all my family and class I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

My family background was deeply Christian.