If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you're pretty much done, and then you're useless.

My father wasn't present, so my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that was all I had.

The important thing for my father bringing me on the board of HCL Technologies was to expose me to our largest asset, which is HCL Technologies.

Fate is like a train. When it flies past, you can choose if you want to get on it or not, to say no or say yes.

My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.

My father loved people, children and pets.

I was angry and sad that people kept commenting on my pictures saying, 'You're too fat to wear that!' or 'Cover up! No one wants to see that!'

Learn to see yourself as Heavenly Father sees you - as His precious daughter or son with divine potential.

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.

My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.

God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image.

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.

My time with my father would be very meaningful, but also very short.

I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

I remember during the Gulf War, my father's ship had just finished a deployment in in the Gulf and was on its way back when the war started in Kuwait. They turned around and went back to the Gulf.