Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Creationists make it sound as though a ‚theory‘ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

Men are what their mothers made them.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

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

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

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.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.