There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

You can not make everybody happy.

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

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

While fathers are pleasant figureheads, there is a special bond between children and their mothers. 'Do you help your mother clean up the house?' I asked one girl of seven. 'No,' she sweetly replied, 'I help make the mess.' It's a dirty job but somebody's got to do it.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.