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I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.
I'm old enough to know better, but still too young to care.
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.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about read more
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's read more
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, read more
Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Children are poor men's riches.
Children are poor men's riches.