In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Debates, I hate.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

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.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

I always play women I would date.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

The self is hateful.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

I’m not a bad person.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

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

She’s been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.