PAUL: ...We’re a very close family. We don’t take kindly to people playing Daily Mail on our family for no good reason.

BELINDA: People say you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead. I say tell the truth. The dead will know what God will tell them. So start talking.

SOFIA: We’re not meant to be good and perfect. You know who lives longer? Married couples who enjoy under the sheets time alone. Enjoy the fun, but understand there must be an end goal.

MASSIMO: I will not let you give me up out of some misguided duty to God....You and I do not need to be alone to show devotion to God. Misery does not show true faith.

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

As far as keeping my sanity, it's something I've only recently tried to focus on as a means of self-preservation.

You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah. And it will worry and feel anxious if it is settled with the people.

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.