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.

I saw a bank that said ’24 Hour Banking‘, but I don’t have that much time.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I love being a dad. I just love it.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write.

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

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

All great achievements require time.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

It is important to remember yourself.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

I’ve always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.