My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I wanted to tell the story of Luong Ung, who’s a dear friend of mine.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

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.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

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.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I’m really good at email.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

I’m modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

We record when I have a hole in the schedule. Sometimes night, sometimes afternoon, sometimes morning – we fit it in when we can. I prep for episodes all the time.

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

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.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

When I talk to kids, I’m really listening. When I do that, we have a little bit of a bigger connection than me being Kendrick Lamar and you being a student. It’s almost like we’re friends. Because a friend listens.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it’s Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.

I particularly like Twitter, because it’s short and can be very funny and informative. It’s a little bit like having your own radio program.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The kids are old enough now – I just want to let them be kids. I don’t want to comment on them too much. They’re at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.