These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it’s always been a bit complicated.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I’m very excited about having the Internet in my den.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

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

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put ‚page 2.‘

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

We polled Tesla owners, do you want autopilot disabled or not. Not one person wanted it disabled. That’s pretty telling.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

Whether one welcomes or deplores it, nothing is more surely and exactly characteristic of modern times than the irresistible invasion of the human world by technology. Mechanism invading like a tide all the places of the earth and all forms of social activity.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.

I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don’t know that I’m doing it, usually.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.