Quotes About Priorities

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

He needed many new ships, but had neither money nor time to build them.

We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

It's none of my business, but sometimes you can spend so much time chasing something that you lose everything else while you're about it.

I mentioned he had a cocaine habit. From what I'm told, that matters to him more.

After Lawrence died, she only had Damian and she doted on him. His success meant the world to her.

The most important things in life aren't things.

In 1990, I was an assistant coach at Providence College, but I knew I wanted to get married and have children. I did not think I could be a great basketball coach and be a great mom.

When you are younger, you think money is happiness, your importance are your friends. Your public image is important. And then, something happens and you realise family is the most important.

I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

Often times, when we talk about improving our public schools, it is easy to come back to the question of money. Are schools basically fine, just underfunded? Millennials say no - more funding isn't the cure-all for what ails our schools.

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

There are a lot of public figures who, before they take a stand on a issue, they talk about it with their publicist and they figure out how it's going to affect record sales. Life is really too short to worry about that sort of thing.

The publicity and hoopla was never important to me.

With the success of 'Black Privilege,' of course, the book publishers wanted me to come with another book immediately. They came with the check, but I don't do things for money.

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away.

Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled me to go off and travel in the first place.

I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

I ain't trying to fight until I'm 35. I'm trying to make my money and go on to something different - do bigger and better things with my life. Hell, I don't want to get punched in the head that damn much. I've got other things I want to do.

I wanted to get a puppy, but then things started getting super, super busy, and I didn't have a chance.

We have a new puppy and that's enough! Two babies and three dogs is enough.

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.