When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

When a politician uses the word ‚folks,‘ we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

I mean, families are weird.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

I did stand-up for my grandparents every day when I was, like, eight.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

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

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

I was also a junior and I know how you learn from seniors, that’s how you follow. Speeches don’t work.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

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.

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

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

You can’t have a relationship with a device whose limits are unknown to you, because without limits, it keeps becoming something else.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.