Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to his wife.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath

If the world is so cruel you are frightened of it, I will hold you, and protect you, and teach it to love you as I already love you.

They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.

Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.