Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

In the real world, children love me.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

It’s a lot easier to stay idealistic if you don’t sign two to five next-of-kin letters every day.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Sometimes the majority just means all the fools are on the same side.

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.‘

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.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

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

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

Vanity is but the surface.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

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.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

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.