Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

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.

Our children are trying to tell us something. And we are not listening.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by 'survival of the fittest.'

The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.