Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

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.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I mean, families are weird.

Dividers seek to make themselves look or feel better by making others feel worse. They damage relationships, fracture teams and organizations, and create havoc in people’s lives.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

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.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend – and he’s a priest.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

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.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Really showing love requires more than just words.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

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

He that rises late must trot all day.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

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.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.