Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: 'May I?' 'Thank you,' and 'I'm sorry

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.