I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don’t cry over the one person who doesn’t.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Did you ever see the customers in health – food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half – dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They’re dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework.