I regard (parenting) as the hardest, most complicated, anxiety-ridden, sweat-and-blood-producing job in the world. Succeeding requires the ultimate in patience, common sense, commitment, humor, tact, love, wisdom, awareness, and knowledge. At the same time, it holds the possibility for the most rewarding, joyous experience of a lifetime, namely, that of being successful guides to a new and unique human being.

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It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair. — Taylor Swift

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As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

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An apple a day keeps anyone away, if you throw it hard enough.

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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy. — J. K. Rowling

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If we do not choose, we will end up with none. — Dr. Seuss

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Say this: I am blessed, successful, and happy. If you can't claim it today, keep saying this until it becomes your truth. ― Germany Kent

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. -Abraham Lincoln

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Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is there some common quality among these Representative Men who have been most successful as our leaders? I call it the need to be authentic-or, as our dictionaries tell us, conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance or belief. While the charismatic has an uncanny outside source of strength, the authentic is strong because he is what he seems to be. — Daniel J. Boorstin

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