Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

My mother insisted that her children read.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

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.

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

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.

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 you have six children, you’re committed.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

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.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

I remember thinking quite logically that I didn’t want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

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

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

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

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

No one is pro-abortion.

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.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

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.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.