The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Adults are obsolete children.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Touring is hard on the body.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

Precaution is better than cure.

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

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.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

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.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

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

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

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

I think hygiene is so important.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

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.

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

God looks after children, animals and idiots.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

How young can you die of old age?

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.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

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

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

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.

My three children have brought me great joy.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.