Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, a….

Science is almost totally incompatible with religion..

I'm competitive - that's what defines me - and I love it..

There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will ….

I live, which is the main point..

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right….

If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend..

I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who I was and how I ….

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children..

What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American childr….

the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated ….

The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reaso….

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motio….

The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is ho….

The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best ki….

All in all, I wouldn't call it a bad outing. It was a short outing..

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography..

I think children in general have a very hard time - at least I did - expressing any pain because I didn't want to hurt the people that I loved..

I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never be….

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child..

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child ….