Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I mean, I wouldn’t pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I’m me.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.

I’m very much a creature of habit.

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.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Men are what their mothers made them.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

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

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

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.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

My three children have brought me great joy.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.