I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I’ve never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

The self is hateful.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

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.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

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.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

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

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don’t ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It’s like, ‚Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.‘

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.