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I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.

My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'

When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

I don't know how many roles I can ask my dad to play in my life, but so far, father, best friend, role model, mentor and grandfather to my children are working out quite well.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, … family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.

All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.

The enormous responsibility and protectiveness a man has to feel towards his family when they are threatened was a revelation to me. I have now experienced manhood.

There's not a mom or dad that wants to leave their child unprotected.

I worry about that every single day: Am I being a good father?

To all of us, Dad was Number One in our house.

Becoming a father is the natural progression and the next stage after marriage. So the thought of becoming a father is itself an incredible feeling!

I enjoy the challenge of being a father... I try to do my best to be there for my children.

Any man can be a father; not any man can be a dad.

Fathers matter.

But being a father is as good as it gets.