Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Children are all foreigners.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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

John D. Rockefeller apparently became more of a tightwad the richer he got. I don’t know if it is true, but one story I read was about one of his sons having to wear his older sister’s clothes in order to save money.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

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.

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.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

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.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

The truth is, I’m just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.