If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.

I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay?

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.