Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

When I see a story, I ask: is this something I’d like to be in? Is this something I’d like to see? And if I’d like to see it, would I like to tell it?

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

The doer alone learneth.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.