Grandparents are God's gifts to children..

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 s….

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices..

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education ….

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure..

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful..

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're actin….

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle. You can't let things just happen. If you know right from wrong, and you know proof that certain things….

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the ….

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

You people are not prepared. You are well educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it..

"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember ….

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody..

The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off..

That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping..

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it..

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say..

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on..

I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knucklehea….

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them..

It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life..