A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

---

I don't have any kids of my own, quite by choice. There are two reasons for that. One, I had a sense of obligation for what my life would be and a vision of how to get that accomplished and it didn't include children. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that if you have them, they deserve 100 per cent of your attention.

---

Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

---

As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.

---

So frequently we mistakenly believe that our children need more things, when in reality their silent pleadings are simply for more of our time.

---

Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end. — George Strait

---

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

---

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

---

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela

---

I have a theory that children remember two things-when you weren't there and when they threw up.

---