I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

Sleep is the best meditation.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

My grandpa was a preacher.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

I do not raise brats!

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

When I was a kid, I never thought much about football. I thought about following in my family’s footsteps and going into professional wrestling.

Where thou art, that is home.

Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I’m happy that I have my family, and I’m happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing’s changed, really.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.