It is a wise father that knows his own child.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Information is not knowledge.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

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

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

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

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

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

Error is always more busy than truth.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

To be social is to be forgiving.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Listen, I think that people want a president who is going to be interested in the things that keep them up at night, the things that are weighing on them, the things that are debilitating and can be addressed.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.