Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

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.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

When in doubt tell the truth.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

Those who cry out that the government should ‚do something‘ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

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.‘

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

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.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

The kids are a big part of my schedule.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

My dad seemed comfortable with his decision to be a ‚have-not,‘ but I knew that I wasn’t.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

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.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.