As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
When you're a child no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything you just want to make the adults happy.
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
For truly it is to be noted that children's plays are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid violent and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children especially the ones who need our help.
We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.
Modernity the child of the Enlightenment failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.
If you want a free society teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
What is missing from today's dialogue is the effect autism is having on families our society and what the unknown factors are. The 300lb. gorilla in the room is that our children with autism today will soon become adults with autism.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children because they will become a drag on our society.
What's done to children they will do to society.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That for me would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child but in all reality I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.