The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows.

Every day before I went to school, I'd already looked after my siblings. In the evenings, I often put them to bed. It was a hard time, but at the same time we were doing very well. We were happy. My family is everything for me.

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that you create together.

The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister, in-laws, and darling nephews.