William Penn

Kings in this should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

For we put the power in the people.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Haste makes Work which Caution prevents.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

How do people make it through life without a sister?

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.

My father died in 1960. He was an intellectual. . . . She made the money and he read a lot. He wasn’t successful or ambitious. He spoke lots of languages. There were times that kids said to me, ‘What does your father do?’ and I had to make something up because I actually didn’t know what he did.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I’ve been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that’s meant a life of one-nighters.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I’ve been a loner all the time throughout my life… I haven’t been the best father… Many times… my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

I believed in raising my children as I had been raised.

I guess my parents were strict. There were a few times when being with my friends and had bring my sister. It was just my parents best interests.

My mother’s a psychologist, my stepfather’s a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad’s a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t know someone on some form of prescription medicine.