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

I like to be myself, and I don’t pretend. For instance, I don’t dress up for occasions; I am what I am.

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

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

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.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

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.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

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

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don’t follow fashion.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

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.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

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

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

Let’s embrace being not normal!

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

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

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.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

In the real world, children love me.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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.

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.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

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.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

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 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.

I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

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.

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

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.