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.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama.

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.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

My three children have brought me great joy.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

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

Sexism is real in this country.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

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.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

My mother is not educated but keeps in touch with world events through news on TV.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

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

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.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

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

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

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

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘