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.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

How can we help President Obama?

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.

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.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

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.

Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Becoming an inspiration for kids is great. I want to inspire them to do whatever they want to.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

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

How can a president not be an actor?

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I have certain guys who I looked up to. Jordan, Kobe, those guys. Passing that on to doing my part to kind of keep that influence of basketball where it should be is kind of why I play the game.

Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.