"Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself."
- Astrid Lindgren
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
- Plato
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
- Theodore Hesburgh
"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."
- Benjamin Spock
"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
- Meryl Streep
"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."
- Desmond Tutu
"Family is not an important thing, it's everything."
- Michael J. Fox
"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."
- Bill Cosby
"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
