My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

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.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

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.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

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.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

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.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

The only way round is through.

Losing is tough.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

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

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I think I have had so much blessing – I’ve had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn’t let them into the family brokerage business.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you’re expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you’re not asking for it.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.