Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

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

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

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

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

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

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

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.

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

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

What I tell my kids is, ‚I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.‘

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

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.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

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

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

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

Children make your life important.

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.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘