We honor our kids most when, while we guide or discipline them, we give them this gift of unconditional love by accepting them and respecting them for who they are, first and foremost.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

The soul mate we marry can become an "ex, " but the soul mates we have in our children will be ours forever, until the end of our life.

Kids will remember less what we did for them and more how we spoke and reacted to them.

We are our own children's "perfect" parents, and within us lie all the simple, yet profound qualities of inner perfection.

Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.