The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

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.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn’t eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Children make your life important.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I’ve had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn’t been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that’s really worthwhile.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.