Quote #3

Give your children lots of rope. Allow them to make their own mistakes. Don't give them too much advice. Each child is different; you have to respect that. It's a crapshoot: You roll the dice, and you see what happens.

More from Kirk Douglas

  1. I tell my sons they didn't have my advantages growing up. I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.
  2. Love has more depth as you get older.
  3. In order to achieve anything, you must be brave enough to fail.
  4. The more I've studied the Torah, the less religious I've become, the more spiritual. We Jews are taught to read Hebrew, but we don't know w…
  5. Muslims follow Muhammad to reach God. Christians follow Jesus. Jews follow Moses. But it's all the same God.
  6. Everybody has an ego.
  7. I never wanted to be a movie actor. I started out on the stage. The first time I was invited out here, I turned it down. Then Michael was b…
  8. The learning process continues until the day you die.

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