“Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.”

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Do not take a blind guide.

Open your mind before your mouth.

You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

A slave is but half a man.

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

High thoughts must have high language.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The love of wine is a good man’s failing.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

Children are the anchors of a mother’s life.

I never fit in with my peer group. I never hung out with kids my age – I always wanted to hang out with my mom and her girlfriends.

You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

I want to be a man’s man – not a kid actor or a glitzy pop star but a no-bullshit leading man.

Growing up in Australia, you never feel like you’re going to live beyond that place. You wake up and you go to the beach, and you do your homework. You’re just a kid.

Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It’s always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

It’s like you have a child and you think, ‘Everything that I’ve done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.’ It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.