"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made."

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

"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children."

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

"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."

"It is a humble truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."