“Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.”

I was’nt always black. There was this freckel that just grew and grew.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?

When you become senile, you won’t know it.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.

Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don’t want to see the dog doing them.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need advice.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.