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

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

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.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

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.

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

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.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

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.

There’s always going to be people who don’t understand or accept the united science, and I will just ignore them, as I’m only acting and communicating on the science.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

There’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.