Tell the children the truth.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what’s happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

You can’t talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

I can be a cruel person.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

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.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Truth is a pathless land.

Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path. If you first understand that, then you will see how impossible it is to organize a belief.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.