There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.
With my wife Camille’s help, I took to social networking. I’m working with the computers.
The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.
People say “God will find a way.” God can’t find a way if you’re in the way.
You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that’s not going to cut it.
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don’t want to see the dog doing them.
I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
I’m not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I’m healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don’t want to eat, but I eat it because I’m enjoying staying alive.
A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.
Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.
We’re not raising children with the love that we need to.
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
You’ll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you’ll never need a friend.
My father walked to school 4 o’clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.