I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

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

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one’s key to the experience of others.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

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.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

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.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

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.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.