“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...”

“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...”

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

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

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

“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.”