You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes read more

A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and read more

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.

We've had bad luck with our kids--they've all grown up.