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

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

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

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

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.

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

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he’s doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

~My children are my life … It’s not like I don’t have my own wants and and dreams anymore – it’s just that the kids come first.~

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child’s tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It’s not funny and it’s not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn’t the least bit funny.

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

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother’s age.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It’s been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.