Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life...
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified if he does it right.
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and we...
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not want...
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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...
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terri...
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.