The aphorism If you want something done, ask a busy woman is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through.

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.

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

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the third is by example.

The Mother Thing makes our world.

I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind!

In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us.... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.

When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who'd lost children wrote to me. —'I lost one, too,'' they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn't lost any children. I'm just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.

Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and they shall rise as glorious Gods.

Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

Do not raise creepy crawlers my dear braveheart parents. Raise mighty humans with Himalayan strength in their veins. Give them the voice that has gone extinct in today's society. And if there is only one thing you could give to your children, then give them courage – courage to pursue their passion – courage to trample every obstacle in their path – courage to keep walking even when their heart bleeds in agony.

Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.

Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall one day grow up to become a real kind human being.

If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.