I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

I’m not a parenting expert. In fact, I’m not sure that I even believe in the idea of ‚parenting experts.‘ I’m an engaged, imperfect parent and a passionate researcher. I’m an experienced mapmaker and a stumbling traveler. Like many of you, parenting is by far my boldest and most daring adventure.

My mother did not like children.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

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

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Working out anchors my day.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Do I have chocolate chip cookies? Yes, I do. Do I have mint chocolate chip milkshakes? Yes, I do. I love them. They are fantastic. But when I have them, they’re worth it. I earned them. I did something. I worked out super hard. I stayed clean on food.

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

I always find the time to exercise – kitesurfing, tennis or cycling – and to spend time with my loved ones.

My son’s full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

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.

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

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

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.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

We’re all bombarded with so many dietary messages that it’s hard to find time to sort through all this information, but we do have time to take a look at our kids‘ plates.

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.‘

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

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