Victor Garber Quotes

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

As a mom, the minute your baby is born, you all of a sudden have these fears. People always say, 'Don't let your fears get you.' But for me, my fears educated me.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

My husband is a good father, concerned about his children.

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book.

Obviously, as parents, we want to do what's best for the kids.

I remember that the first time I looked at my son, of course I felt love. But I think the first feeling was not love: it was fear. Someone is needing me. If something happens to him, what am I going to do? Maybe I won't survive if something happens to him? The fear was as big as the love.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

Having a child is difficult enough already, bringing with it a whole range of wonderful challenges, and we shouldn't be trying to guilt parents into 'there is just one way to do it'.

My baby is obviously more important than anything else.

You learn that there's no right way to do it, no wrong way to do it. It's just what you feel comfortable with, to trust that, and don't let anybody box you in to a certain style of parenting or make you feel a certain way about what your kids do.

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

Being pregnant and carrying a child is a blessing unique to womankind and a mother instinctively wants the best for her child.