“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.”

“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...”

“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”

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

“It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.”

“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own br...”

“If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.”

“Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fi...”