I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

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.

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

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

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.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

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.

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

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

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.

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.

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

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

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

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Lord, help my poor soul.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

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.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

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.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

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

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

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.

God looks after children, animals and idiots.