“Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.”

“You can't hire someone to practice for you.”

“Life doesn't come with an instruction book; that's why we have fathers.”

“It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.”

“Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.”

“Adult males are what their moms designed them.”

“Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.”

“What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.”