We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus it really teaches the baby who's boss.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him to teach him to love what is difficult.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also all too often where we learn nasty things like hate rage and shame.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books but to go to God in prayer and obtain divine teaching.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

In a completely rational society the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet you'd best teach it to dance.

In the practice of tolerance one's enemy is the best teacher.

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance that profusion is not magnificence that splendor is not beauty.