Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I do have a close circle of friends and I am very fortunate to have them as friends. I feel very close to them I think friends are everything in life after your family. You come across lots of people all the time but you only make very few friends and you have to be true to them otherwise what's the point in life?

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.