If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.