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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune...to lose both seems like carelessness.

He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn -- the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: "Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers.

Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life.

Our sons and daughters must be trained in national service, taught to give as well as to receive.

Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is years.