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

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

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

An unused life is an early death.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Life is wasted on the living.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

It takes three to make a child.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.