If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.

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.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

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

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

I’m going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you’re not going to believe it.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

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

If it weren’t for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they’re all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Female psychotic bosses can be particularly devilish. They will tend to mix in a lot of passive aggression, making you feel guilty for all kinds of things.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

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

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by Bob Marley.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

In the real world, children love me.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

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

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

There are some loony people in this world!

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.