Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can’t date him. It can’t even be considered.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

A pessimist? That’s a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

In the course of a marriage, one accommodates the other.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.