“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

“There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise o...”

“work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does co...”

“(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.”

“Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers,' he said. 'I think that’s kind of the point of them.”

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”

“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.”

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

“Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.”

“If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.”