I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

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.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

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

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Simplify, simplify.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

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

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

God always takes the simplest way.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Children always turn to the light.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

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.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.