Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.

There are no separations—only connections. There are no deaths—only transformations.

I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

The wealthy man is not he who has money, but he who has the means to live in the luxurious state of early spring.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I go game to game, at-bat to at-bat. That's my way.

Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.