Regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Care about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying. As every child is the little Buddha whom helps his parents to grow up.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

From your parents you learn love, and laughter, and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee, and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.