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.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Our interpretations of subjects are clouded by our intellects.

I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.

The biggest thing I've learnt is not to limit myself by the norm or what I should be doing.

Nowadays, who actually listens to the tracks on an album, anyway?

There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'

Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

I was one of the first people to join Facebook in February of 2004, and launched one of the inaugural applications on the platform in May 2007.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students - in part, at least - is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I'm right: students do what they're told.

There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.

The number of people, the labor force, has shrunk by nine million human beings since Obama took office.

Love makes the world go round

Avoiding the doctrine of hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.

You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.

Be yourself. Be true to that to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

Insults are the business of the court.

I tried to keep us together you were busy keeping secrets.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.