It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

In the end, it’s not what you do for your children but what you’ve taught them to do for themselves.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

I’d rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

There’s a story behind everything…but behind all your stories is always your mother’s story…because hers is where yours begins.

A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I’m a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That’s a great feeling.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

When you are so full of sorrow
that you can’t walk, can’t cry anymore,
think about the green foliage that sparkles after
the rain. When the daylight exhausts you, when
you hope a final night will cover the world,
think about the awakening of a young child.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

Never help a child with a task that they feel they can complete themselves.

We protested when the Israeli Defense Forces killed more than 2,000 Palestinians in 50 days. Yet Obama replied with words about the difficult plight of police officers … and the additional $225m in financial support of the Israeli army. Obama said not a mumbling word about the dead Palestinian children but he did call Baltimore black youth ‘criminals and thugs’.

Success is the child of audacity.

What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says ‘Be still and know you are God.’ What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love- the ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.

Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

If men started taking care of children, the job will become more valuable.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can’t say goodbye.