It's their failure, my little Anna, not yours. Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

Men who try to understand the world without the help of children are like men who try to bake bread without the help of yeast.

It is imperative you stay in touch with your inner self so you don’t lose the essence of who you truly are.

Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth.

You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that.

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.

I think marriage is ghastly.

I've gone from a two-pitch guy to a four-pitch guy.