I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.

Was it Gorky who said: If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.

Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children-and no theories.

If a child tells you a lie, tell him that he has told a lie, but don't call him a liar. If you define him as a liar, you break down his confidence in his own character.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is-a few minutes of his time each day.

If you don't firmly program your children's minds with truth, someone else will do so with half-truth, untruth, and unimportant truth.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

It's clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

The best way to raise one child is to have two.

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

No man ever really finds out what he believes in until he begins to instruct his children.