We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Tell the children the truth.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

My mother taught children to love to dance.

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

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.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

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

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

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.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

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

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.

My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

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.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

It’s probably not an accident that the films that I care about happen to be about issues that matter to me, stories that I want to tell.

In the real world, children love me.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

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

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

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