"Family is at the heart of everything I do."

"I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes."

"I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables."

"I'm so used to being within 10 minutes of my family."

"My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class."

"I have a tight-knit Southern family."

"I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal."

“Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” 

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. 

If you want to be great at something, there’s a choice you have to make. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be.

“The family is the hospital closest to us: when someone is sick, they are cared for there, where possible. The family is the first school for children, it is the unwavering reference point for the young, it is the best home for the elderly. It is the first school of mercy, because it is there that we have been loved and learned to love, have been forgiven and learned to forgive.” 

“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family.” 

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.

In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others.

I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to get back to where I am very confident in my ability to bike a long way.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!” 

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

“My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.” 

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

“I think that in any group activity – whether it be business, sports, or family – there has to be leadership or it won’t be successful.”