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.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I like the fact that Melbourne always seems to support their chefs and promote them in ways I find really admirable.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, red children, brown children, that is the black woman’s normal, day-to-day relationship. In my family alone, we are about four different colors.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

In oratory the will must predominate.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Men are what their mothers made them.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Never find fault with the absent.

If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.