I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children for how difficult their world is.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Like the average American that I hang out with and like my father before me I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds they would remain so.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion if they can find out what it is.

We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

I have a great relationship with animals and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world it's hugely different.

It's not that you know when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and because of what the law was they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then only a few feet away in the cookbook section just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

A grandchild is a miracle but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.

When one has love for God one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife children relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy too.

The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.