The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

The less you know, the more you believe.

We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

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?

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn’t matter. You said, ‚That’s an American‘ because there’s a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

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 highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

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

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

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

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

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.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it’s very inexpensive to send mail.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

If I inspire you, pay for it, period.

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.‘

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.