Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

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 feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

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

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

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

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven’t realized it yet.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

My next baby will be my new record.

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.‘

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

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

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

I don’t let a lot of reporters meet my children.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

I just really believe people have to get hungry. I think maybe what we need to do, instead of trying to stuff our beliefs down people’s throats, is just pray for them to really be hungry and to see their neediness.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

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.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.