It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can’t so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Silence is the mother of truth.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

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.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything… to know what’s going on so I can feel like I’m in control.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

He who hath many friends hath none.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.