In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

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

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.