By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

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.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home – it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

It is a wise father that knows his own child

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects" them

man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season

A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be