"My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me."

"Noble fathers have noble children."

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."

"Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children."

"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard for posterity."

"A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own."

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

"I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. "

"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."

"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children."

"You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any."

"A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother."

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."

"No individual gets up and says, I'm going to take this because I want it. He'd say, I'm going to take it because it really belongs to me and it would be better for everyone if I had it. It's true of children fighting over toys. And it's true of governments going to war. Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides."

"It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them."