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.

Sure I have friends plenty of friends and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family with money but selfish with the important stuff like love.

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.

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard had the right values took some risks that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity her compassion her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

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.

When I remember my family I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I am the baby in the family and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don't mind that.

I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.

I've always had great faith in people.

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.

Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.

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

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties humor is the Teflon coating.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

I've always thought and it gets tested at times that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Faith always contains an element of risk of venture and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.