I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

Tell the children the truth.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

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.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

If I ever had twins, I’d use one for parts.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you’re doing something good.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it’s feet first!

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘