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.

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. 

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.

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

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.

My father was weaned on books. I'm halfway between being weaned on books and weaned on television. And if you're weaned on television, you're not as good a writer as if you were weaned on books.

It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough.

If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.

I am a shy person, basically. I don't think I can take my shirt off in front of so many people. I never thought about it. No one asked me to. But I don't even know if people like it if they see me without a shirt all of a sudden. But let's see, if a film demands it, I might just do it.

Authentic atheism is a blank page Gnostic atheism hides a text written in invisible ink. The ebermensch is the recourse of a nonconformist atheism. Nietzsche invents a human consolation for the death of God Gnostic atheism on the other hand proclaims the divinity of man.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.

People don't need to necessarily see me in the jersey to understand who I am and what message I'm trying to get across with the things that I'm marketing.

I think if you're good and you can persuade people you're going to be able to do that role and ultimately the audience buys it, then it doesn't matter whether you were really a chimpanzee in disguise! You've done it.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

I really believe that, as human beings, we have an innate need to explore, to see what's around the corner.

These days what's not worth saying gets set to music.

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.