No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

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

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

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

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

My mother did not like children.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

When I had to make a decision whether or not an activity was appropriate for the Sabbath, I simply asked myself, ‚What sign do I want to give to God?‘ That question made my choices about the Sabbath day crystal clear.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they’re between you and God.

Tell the children the truth.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

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.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

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.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

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.‘

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.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

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

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

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.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

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