“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”

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.

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

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.

Thought is the thought of thought.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves.

Who, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.

It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid.

Don’t sacrifice your spirit for wealth. Grow your wealth by first growing your spirit.

There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.