“It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.”

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

We are the sum total of all the choices we have made.

Courage is exhilarating.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.

Be confident, not certain

A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.

We do not have to become heroes overnight.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Your greatest self lies within the hands of your inner child- the you who used to chase their shadows instead run from them.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

Moon child with your galaxy heart, cool your heels and stay awhile.

Be bold, child. You are rare and you are brazen light.

If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.