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 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.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

My mom, she was a very, very soft woman. It was hard for her to yell or even curse. But when it came to fighting for her kids, she found a strength she didn’t always know she had.

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

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

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.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The soul is healed by being with children.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

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

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

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.

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Men are what their mothers made them.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

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.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

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.

Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there’s a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There’s a beautiful side to her; she’s not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

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

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

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

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

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.