I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

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

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

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.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

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

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

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

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

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

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.