Brad Meltzer Quotes

I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

If you're going to have kids, there's only one way to go. They have to know they're the most important things in your life, and once you're doing that, there's no way that you could not learn from them, because they just give you stuff constantly.

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

My children are, without question, the most wonderful thing. I've learnt more about myself through my children than any other experience in my life.

All the valuable lessons I learned from my dad, little questions to big, and that's what I want my children to do.

Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

By the time I'm 35, I'll probably want to have a family. I'd be happy doing that, teaching my kids to do the right things, to do good things.

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.

I want to learn from everybody.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

I want my wife and children to travel always with me and share good things and bad things. That's what the family is for.

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.

When one teaches, two learn.