You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

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.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

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

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

I vote and I do jury duty.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

The idea that putting Americans ‚first‘ requires a withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded because a retreat would achieve exactly the opposite for our citizens.

I’ve always felt heroic about my life… As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn’t think that was the case at all. My parents didn’t treat me as a girl.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

My next baby will be my new record.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.