I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal dependable good friend. Nothing.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become in a special way the servant of the others.

Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent there has to be something inside you that says 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

When you have a godly husband a godly wife children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs lovingly you have the ideal unit.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

My parents were both very intellectually honest straightforward and for them faith meant that you were fully engaged.