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.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

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.

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

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

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

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

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.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

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

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

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

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.

I really like children to watch my movies.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Adults are obsolete children.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

My three children have brought me great joy.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

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

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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

Lord, help my poor soul.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

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.