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.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

In oratory the will must predominate.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

If I have the chance to say something, I will say it – but that doesn’t obligate me to always say something, or to shed light on every problem, as if I were a lawmaker.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

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.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

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.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.

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

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication.

Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

My mother always wanted to give back.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

Lil Wayne, that’s my brother. Birdman, that’s family.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ‚like‘ has spread through the idiom of the young. And it’s true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.