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.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

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.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

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.

I love to dance, but my children tell me I shouldn’t. Can’t see why.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

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

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

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

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

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

Children are all foreigners.

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.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

The white man is destroying the world.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

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.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

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

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

My three children have brought me great joy.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.