As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go. - Samantha Bond

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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ― Desmond Tutu

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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.

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The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

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The worst expression of the Prophet’s (Sallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam) anger towards his wife was that he would remain silent.

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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.- Kofi Annan

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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

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The only luxury is time. The time you get to spend with your family. -- Kanye West

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My own interest in Kafka's letter came about when I was writing an article on Peter Ginz, the boy novelist held in Terezin, not far from Prague, and exterminated in Auschwitz by the Nazis. The Ginz family were from more or less the same milieu as the Kafkas. - Justin Cartwright

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