You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

My wife and I have five children and the reason why we have five children is because we do not want six.

The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

You can not make everybody happy.