If what you preach and what you do are inconsistent, your children will spot hypocrisy faster than anybody and do the opposite.
I have lived those lines and I know that if I had not been apprehended I would have slit some white throats.
You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all the odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love.
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.
Craft your love into everything