Dwyane Wade Quotes

My parents have always been very open.

This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly.

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.

After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

I have a very open line of communication with both my children.

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

When you are open about your things, people feel more able to talk to you. I think that's a nice thing, because people get help and don't feel so isolated.

It'd be really nice to sit down with all the people who have hurt me and tell them all the reasons that they've affected me.

I think honest communication, no matter where it comes from, is positive for a relationship.

Telling kids the truth isn't always entirely possible, but talking to them is.

I waited for my daughter, Billie, to come to me with her troubles - but I'm glad I didn't hold my breath.

Whenever I get a job that's somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them.

You have to be honest, even when you are upset with your child. Your intentions must be clear. You must never lie to your child.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

It's refreshing to just see someone that you can have honest communication with.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.