People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls read more

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things read more

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, read more

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family

Other things may change us, but we start and end with family

A father in a canoe
in which his baby is seated
walks more carefully than on land.

A father in a canoe
in which his baby is seated
walks more carefully than on land.

One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll read more

One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who\'ll be with me will be my family.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a read more

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a kint when a hint isn't intended.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the read more

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.