If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.
Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.
When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it’s all good.
You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse’s ass – Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.
There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend.
It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.
I realize that I’m black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that’s everybody’s wish. I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.
I’m a little fatigued of adults saying we’ve got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don’t know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation.
I love my son and am proud of my son.
Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You’re Doing It Wrong.
The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists.
I’m doing this for the kid who truly leads a ‘thug life’ and thinks it’s HOPELESS.
I’d love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that’s the way it is.
In order to develop normally, a child requires progressively more complex joint activity with one or more adults who have an irrational emotional relationship with the child. Somebody’s got to be crazy about that kid. That’s number one. First, last and always.