People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Children are all foreigners.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I’m an emotional person.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

In the real world, children love me.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

I’ve said this time and again: My greatest concern coming into the White House was making sure my girls came out whole and normal, and decent and kind, just like I would expect them to if we were living on the South Side of Chicago. And it takes work to keep White House life normal for the kids.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

Love is a serious mental disease.