The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

I write all of my own speeches.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

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 your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

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

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

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

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Language is the dress of thought.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?