My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

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

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

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.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

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

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

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.

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.

I do not think that I am a natural born mother… If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

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

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 wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

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.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

I don’t race cars.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

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

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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

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.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

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.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

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

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Children have always responded to me because I have that cartoon-character look.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

You see, at the end of the day, my most important title is still ‚mom-in-chief.‘ My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.