Peter Ustinov Quotes

Education, Love & Acceptance are the First Steps to Breaking Down Barriers

My wife Kari and I have three incredible kids. And like parents everywhere, we want our children to grow up in a country and a world that is peaceful, and where, if they work hard, they can reach their God-given potential.

I don't want to make any mistakes. My parents have been married for 40 years. I want to stay married.

You can date whoever you want, but you should marry the nerds and the good guys.

We all want to raise our children well.

Yelling between people in love is normal.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

If you want to keep a relationship, you must nurture them with love.

My mam and dad have brought me up well.

I think if there's a support system in place, and you're acting adult-to-adult with a sense of unconditional love and forgiveness, only good things will come from any relationship between men and women.

I want people to realize that we can teach hate, but we also can teach love.

That's the best gift you can give to your parents - a diploma.

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.

I enjoy all my relationships with my husband, my kids, my sisters and my girlfriends and maintaining a healthy relationships across the board nurtures my soul.

I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.

As a man in a relationship, you have a choice: You can be right or you can be happy.

If you have to change some laws, get that done. If it's getting schools, the next generation, to understand love and understanding, let's get that done.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

A real man wouldn't lay a finger on a woman. He treats his partner with respect, love and support. Men are physically stronger and have no place abusing that power. Everyone has problems, and arguments happen, but that's when a real man uses his intelligence to talk it out.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids.