Children are all foreigners.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

If you would judge, understand.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

I’m half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That’s why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I’ve seen so many.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

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.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Children always turn to the light.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.

People like to talk about war.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

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.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.