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

“But kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't b...”

“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.”

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

“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”

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

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

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

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

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself and one for helping others”