The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

A person hears only what they understand.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

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

One must steer, not talk.

My mother insisted that her children read.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Debates, I hate.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

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.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

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.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.