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It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see.

I don't live my life through my kids, nor do I expect them to live theirs through mine. But of course, they're everything.

As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.