Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

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.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

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.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

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.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

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

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.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

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

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.