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.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

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

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

I never fall in love.

When people get married young, you don’t really understand the true definition of marriage.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

If I think too hard about a relationship, I’ll talk myself out of it.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always there for me.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that’s called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Speak low, if you speak love.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

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

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Adults are obsolete children.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.