I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

I always say I’m one of the toughest mama’s boys you’re ever gonna meet. And I say that to send a message to all the young thugs out there; that it’s nothing to be ashamed of to say you love your mother.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

My mother did not like children.

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.‘

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

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

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I’m ugly.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

You should never give up your inner self.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

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.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

In the beginning, I was very insecure. I hated how I looked in pictures.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Men are what their mothers made them.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.