"Если Вы хотите вырастить хороших детей, тратьте на них в два раза меньше денег и в два раза больше времени". Эстер Селсдон

"Величайшим бременем, выпадающим на долю детей, является непрожитая жизнь их родителей". Джеймс Холлис

"Дети охотно всегда чем нибудь занимаются. Это весьма полезно, а потому не только не следует этому мешать, но нужно принимать меры к тому, чтобы всегда у них было что делать". Ян Коменский

"Взрослые слишком часто живут рядом с миром детей, не пытаясь понять его. А ребёнок между тем пристально наблюдает за миром своих родителей; он старается постичь и оценить его; фразы, не осторожно произнесенные в присутствии малыша, подхватываются им, по-своему истолковываются и создают определённую картину мира".

"Самый лучший возраст у детей, это когда вы уже не водите их за руку, а они ещё не водят вас за нос".

"Вы не задумывались, сколько дети дарят родителям? Любовь, самую настоящую, радость, надежду... Как часто рядом с ребёнком мы чувствуем себя умными, всесильными... Ребёнок дарит нам чувство собственной значимости".

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.

I've got to go. That's one of the penalties of being a doctor. I never seem to finish a conversation.

People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award.

For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Telemarketers tell me I sound like Bill Cosby.

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

Well fight them sir til hell freezes over and then sir we will fight them on the ice.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

I'd like to win an Oscar.

Most of us have been in that situation where you've been falling in love with somebody who didn't feel the same way. It's not a nice situation.

There is no professional field hockey. So you better be getting your education. Otherwise its a waste of time and money.