Να είσαι πάντα πρώτος και καλύτερος από όλους και ποτέ να μη ντροπιάζεις τους προγόνους σου.

Αν δεν τιμάς τους γονείς σου, ποιος πρόκειται να τιμήσει εσένα;

Αν θέλεις να είσαι άγιος, δίδαξε καλά τα τέκνα σου. Διότι, σε διαφορετική περίπτωση, οι κακές πράξεις που αυτά θα κάμουν, σε σένα πρόκειται ν' αποδοθούν μετά.

Για τη μητέρα, το παιδί είναι το παν, ενώ, γι' αυτό, η μητέρα είναι ένας κρίκος μόνο στην όλη αλυσίδα της ζωής του.

Γιατί αγαπάμε τόσο πολύ τα παιδιά μας και τόσο λίγο τα παιδιά των άλλων; Γιατί είναι δικά μας και μέσω αυτών αγαπάμε τον εαυτό μας.

Δεν είναι περίεργο ότι από καλούς γονείς βγαίνουν καλά παιδιά κι από ανάξιους γονείς καλά παιδιά.

Είναι όμορφο να κληρονομείς τη δόξα και την υπόληψη του πατέρα.

Είναι σοφός ο πατέρας που γνωρίζει το ίδιο του το παιδί.

Η σοφία του πατέρα είναι η καλύτερη συμβουλή για τα παιδιά του.

Μεταχειρίσου τους γονείς σου με τον τρόπο που επιθυμείς να σου συμπεριφέρονται τα παιδιά σου.

Μια γυναίκα προτιμάει πάντοτε το παιδί της από τον άνδρα της.

Ό,τι προσφέρεις στους γονείς σου θα λάβεις από τα παιδιά σου.

Οι τιμές και η δόξα των γονέων αποτελούν ανεκτίμητο θησαυρό για τα παιδιά.

Όποιου δεν του χαμογέλασαν οι γονείς του, δεν του αξίζει να δειπνήσει με τους θεούς, ούτε να πλαγιάσει με τις θεές.

Όσο ζουν οι γονείς σου μην ταξιδεύεις μακριά. Αν όμως χρειαστεί να ταξιδέψεις, να ξέρουν τον προορισμό σου.

Πολλά παιδιά - πολλές φροντίδες. Κανένα παιδί - καμία ευτυχία.

Τα παιδιά σου θα σου κάνουν ό,τι έκανες στους γονείς σου.

Τα παιδιά στην αρχή αγαπούν τους γονείς τους – όταν μεγαλώνουν τους κρίνουν – κάποιες φορές τους συγχωρούν.

Την ηλικία του πατέρα και της μητέρας σου δεν γίνεται να μην την έχεις στο μυαλό σου: αφ' ενός με χαρά, αφ' ετέρου με φόβο.

Υπάρχει καλύτερο κόσμημα για το παιδί από τη δόξα του πατέρα του και για τον πατέρα από τη δόξα του γιου του;

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Give me 10 high school pitchers, let me spend a week with them, and I'll show you 10 pitchers who won't balk. It's not that difficult, and they better learn it.

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

We always long for the forbidden things and desire what is denied us.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.'

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

Our life is our masterpiece, it's up to us on how we paint our story. It's up to us how we see the substances we have. At the end of the day, all our accumulated stuff will be presented as our greatest piece of work.

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

I think one thing is that anybody who's had to contend with mental illness - whether it's depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever - actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they've had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.

I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

I don't pass myself off as a Bible scholar or a pastor or someone who knows all the biblical facts cover-to-cover. I'm just a guy whose life was changed by it. And that's about the extent of it. So I'm not easily offended when people struggle about where they're at with their faith at all.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.

My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

Let each one of us say, 'I am an American. I intend to stay an American. I will do my best to wipe from my heart hate, rancor and political prejudice. I will sustain my government. And, through good days or bad, I will try to serve my country.'