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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be - as long as they want to be something great.

The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.