"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

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

"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".

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

"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".

It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.

Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not.

We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice, because that's the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax.

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

I'm all about your mindset, being focused, staying positive, being optimistic, and knowing that these are all aspects of my life that I love and enjoy.

In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.

Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

The reader of European history who goes searching for Gypsies will find them only in footnotes.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.