Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Take example by your father, my boy, and be very careful of vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public house, Sammy.

Charles Dickens

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Terry Pratchett

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

Abraham Lincoln

We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.

Taylor Swift

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

Jonathan Sacks

I have a map of the United States...actual size. It says, Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile. I spent last summer folding it. I also have a full size map of the world. I hardly ever unroll it.

Steven Wright

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Ricky Williams

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Anonymous

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Antonin Artaud

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Bill Cosby

To my knowledge significant progress has never been born of competition.... In science, being 'better' than others is of little practical value. Examples of how absurd the idea of scientific competition is are abundant.

Heinrich Rohrer

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Dorothy L. Sayers