Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

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.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

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.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

If at first you don’t succeed… so much for skydiving.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

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

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

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.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

When I’m around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you’re supposed to. And I say things, like every other day, that remind me of my own parents.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

My son is becoming me – just a silly, silly prankster guy.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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.

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.

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

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‚Don’t do this‘ and ‚Don’t do that.‘ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

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.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

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

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

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.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

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.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.