Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

My fans don’t feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I’m going through now, they’ll hear about it on a record someday. They’ll hear the real story. There’s a little bit of lag time. It’s not as instant as going on a gossip blog. But it’s much more accurate.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

I’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

We cannot learn men from books.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set it.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

Time discovers truth.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.