Tell the children the truth.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

When in doubt tell the truth.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

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

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

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

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

The soul is healed by being with children.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

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.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

If you’re lying, you’re lying.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

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.