O embaraço parece ser a única possibilidade de compreensão entre pais e filhos.

Quando você é mãe, você nunca está realmente sozinha em seus pensamentos. Uma mãe sempre tem que pensar duas vezes, uma por ela e outra por seu filho.

Imagine o filho que você quer ter, para imaginar o pai que você deve ser. 

Quando você levantar o braço para bater em seu filho, ainda com o braço no ar, pense se não seria mais educativo se você descesse esse braço de forma a acariciá-lo, em vez de machucá-lo.

Nada melhor pode dar um pai a seu filho do que uma boa educação. 

Tudo que faço é estar do seu lado e só assim me sinto feliz. Eu adoro você, meu filho! 

Para a mulher, o homem é um meio: o objetivo é sempre o filho.

A verdade é que a gente não faz filhos. Só faz o layout. Eles mesmos fazem a arte-final.

Meu filho amado, viva sua vida com a certeza que estarei sempre ao seu lado. 

Às vezes o homem mais pobre deixa a seus filhos a herança mais rica.

Se lhe falta aptidão para criar os seus filhos, acho que nenhuma outra coisa que faça bem-feita tem importância.

Quando você levantar o braço para bater em seu filho, ainda com o braço no ar, pense se não seria mais educativo se você descesse esse braço de forma a acariciá-lo, em vez de machucá-lo.

No início, os filhos amam os pais. Depois de um certo tempo, passam a julgá-los. Raramente ou quase nunca os perdoam.

Ter um filho é mágico, mas ter um como você é mais especial que qualquer dádiva!

A gratidão é uma dívida que os filhos nem sempre aceitam no inventário.

Maior que a dor do parto é a dor da criança abandonada. Assumir a paternidade e criar os filhos com dignidade, dando bons exemplos. Esse é o caminho da cidadania.

É a nossos filhos que pagamos a nossa dívida para com os nossos pais.

Vossos filhos não são vossos filhos. São os filhos e as filhas da ânsia da vida por sí mesma 

A coisa mais importante que um pai pode fazer por seus filhos é amar a mãe deles. 

Uma mãe nunca deixa seu filho em casa, mesmo quando ela não o carrega consigo.

The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

I've been to the White House a number of times.

This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.

I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's something I haven't done before.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business.

I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

NASCAR, there's nothing wrong with it, it's very competitive, but the specs are very tight on tolerances.

You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. Its better keeping the roots alive because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives so will the blues.

The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.

As an actor, you get hired to repeat yourself. It wears you out.

When I was growing up my parents told me. Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving. I tell my daughters. Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.