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 believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I don’t like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don’t like factory farming. I’m not an advocate for the meat industry.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

In the real world, children love me.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

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.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

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

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

As much as I’m a black person from America, I’m a black person from Africa, too.

Children make your life important.

The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system – at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.

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

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.