I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

I wanted to get out of the pictures and stay home so that I could have children.

There are two men in each one of us: the scientist, he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature through observations, experimentation and reasoning, and the man of sentiment, the man of belief, the man who mourns his dead children, and who cannot, alas, prove that he will see them again, but who believes that he will, and lives in the hope – the man who will not die like a vibrio, but who feels that the force that is within him cannot die.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

"In the real world, children love me."

"Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?"

"Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it."

"It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows."

"In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television."

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

"I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ''Checkout Time is 18 years.''"

"When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911."

"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."

"Never have more children than you have car windows."

"A child develops individuality long before he discovers taste"

"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out."

"The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"

"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it."

"The Avatar is a child to the children, a boy to the boys, a man among men, a woman among women, so that the Avatar’s message might reach each heart and receive enthusiastic response as Ananda. It is the compassion of the Avatar that prompts His every action."