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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

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.

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 kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

I don't think children themselves have changed that much. It's the world that has changed.

Kids are very cruel to each other.