I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Everything isn’t political.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.