"Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?"

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

"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"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit"

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better"

"There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman"