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.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

My mother did not like children.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

The future is purchased by the present.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

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.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

It takes three to make a child.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

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

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

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

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

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

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

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

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

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.