Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero.

I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagine having a child to leave.

I will always take your part, Bee. Right or wrong. That is why you must always take care to be right, lest you make your father a fool.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Every time that God gives us a child, it's His way of saying He trusts us-trusts us to offer love and to guide the child toward Him.

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world -any world. The very best of all.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for you, son.I still do.

If you're using most of your energy to do stuff for your kids, then you'll have that much less energy to just be there for them.

She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

I gave my girlfriend a gallon of my semen and a minivan and told her to fill it up with kids. Big mistake! I should have given her a bus.

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.