I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Leadership is influence.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

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

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

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.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

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

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

In ‚Gran Torino,‘ I play a guy who’s racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you’re never too old to learn and embrace people that you don’t understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

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

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

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

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.