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.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

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

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

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.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ‚Checkout Time is 18 years.‘

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

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.

I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.

If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

They know enough who know how to learn.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

Everybody who makes any kind of policy needs to substitute teach. But you’ve got to be a real teacher. You can’t just go to a couple of classes with the regular teacher there. It is an incredibly hard job.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.