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.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

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.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

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

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

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

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

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Adults are obsolete children.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

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.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

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.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

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

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

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

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

They are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

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

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

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

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

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.