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

I don’t like people going behind my back.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

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

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

There’s something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she’s only measured water in it.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Now that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The American public’s a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I’m going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I’m going to do it.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

Nobody likes to have trouble. The moment we get a hint that it’s coming, a common response is, ‚Oh no! Not again!‘

If you can’t hear me, it’s because I’m in parentheses.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don’t have a top for it.

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.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

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

A word to the wise is infuriating.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

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.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

As apostles and prophets, we are concerned not only for our children and grandchildren but for yours as well – and for each of God’s children.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

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

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.