Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

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

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

I really like children to watch my movies.

Life is anything but predictable.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Actor’s life is very long.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.