Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

My mother insisted that her children read.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

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

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.