I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist the solo flute for Toscanini.

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I'm a strong person I'm a strong family man I'm a strong husband and a strong father.

Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.

Let your family staff and friends know that you're still the same person despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces primarily by TV commercials.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.

I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done but it was right for me.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality and physical characteristics warts and all and from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

When you start about family about lineage and ancestry you are talking about every person on earth.

Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not it's not the end of the world.

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer which is reflected in facial expressions among other things.