I come from a family of losers and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job to teach. His first school his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

Thinking back to those earlier days I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies and then when I was I thought I was weak as a family member.

My father was the center of the family and everyone tried to please him.

I sang in the choir for years even though my family belonged to another church.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then all of a sudden my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

My friends ask me why I still live with my family but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together.

The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy because my mother kept a great deal to herself.