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I think we are defined as human beings through our families, no matter what kind of family - through our relationships with parents, brothers and sisters.

The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.

Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family's made you who you are, whether you've spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.

My family are everything to me. They come first in everything I do.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.