Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

Software options proliferate extremely easily – too easily, in fact – because too many options create tools that can’t ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one’s mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I can express myself.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

In the real world, children love me.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

My mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.