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

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I’ll just know. If I had a girl, she’d probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

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

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

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.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

I have spent the greater part of my life in a hotel room with seven or eight kids, looking after everyone, sorting out fights, wiping noses, handing out towels, not having a clean towel left for me.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The secret of being a bore… is to tell everything.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

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

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

If you want to reach the top, don’t run over others. Likely, the only way you’ll reach the top is to be carried there by others.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

The vibe in our locker room is real energetic and fun and real personable, I think from Day 1. That gets you through a lot of tough times, where in hard times, it might be common nature for guys to do their own thing and split up and become silent.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

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?

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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.