My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mom would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.
"I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.
"A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential."
"It's only when you grow up and step back from him — or leave him for your own home — it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it."
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
"He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector."