Children are all foreigners.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

We have one planet in our solar system that’s habitable, and that’s the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here for the better. First of all, by just having people go to space and look back on this fragile planet we live on. People have come back transformed and have done fantastic things.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

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

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

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

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

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

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

El Salvador is a democracy so it’s not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans… I have heard a single voice.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.