Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.

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

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

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."