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.

This way of life is worth defending.

You learn that there’s no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It’s just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don’t let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

You don’t go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

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

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Morality is contraband in war.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

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.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I am pro-education. I’m just anti the system.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.