Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

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

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

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 loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

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.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

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

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

My next baby will be my new record.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

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

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘