In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

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

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

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

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

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.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

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

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Children are all foreigners.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

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.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

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

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn’t educate America if they started at 6:30.

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

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

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 think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

Children always turn to the light.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.