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.

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Silence is safer than speech.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

The Revolution did not assume a socialist nature because of support from the U.S.S.R.; it was the other way around: support from the U.S.S.R. was produced by the socialist nature of the Cuban Revolution. To such a degree, that when the U.S.S.R. disappears, Cuba keeps on being socialist.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

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

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

In order to have friends, you must first be one.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

I’ve never dropped anyone I believed in.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

Debates, I hate.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Children make your life important.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people’s progress.

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

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 don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

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

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.