I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

My mother did not like children.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

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.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I have wasted my hours.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run.

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

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

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.

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

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I’m a day-to-day-type person.

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

Once you have six children, you’re committed.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

I just don’t have time to get old!

Time is money.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.