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

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.

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

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

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

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Michelle and I don’t want anyone telling us who our family’s doctor should be – and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

This way of life is worth defending.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

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.

I have no problem yelling at anybody’s kid – free of charge!

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

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

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

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

With all the… success that I’ve been lucky enough to get? That doesn’t happen unless the home life is solid.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

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 still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

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.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

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.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Christians are not limited to any church.

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

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.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

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

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.

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

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn’t know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I’m worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That’s always first.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.