Bill Cosby on success

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

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

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.