If I could be half of what my mother was, I’d be twice the man I am now.

The ingredients are exactly the same, but the taste is not. And that’s because it’s not about the ingredients. Rather, it’s about the mother who took the time she didn’t have to create the meal she didn’t need for a child who didn’t understand. And once I became an adult, I realized that those ingredients make the best meals.

The measure of a man is determined by the distance between his knees and the ground. The less the distance, the greater the man.

The future is shaped by the people that we send into it. And we must never forget that the child tugging on our pant-legs is one of those people.

A true legacy can be recognized by the fact that it will be left standing when everything else that has attacked it is not.

A father knows that the voice of a child singing is nothing less than the heart of a father that lost its voice. And so, rather than write such singing off to the ignorance of childhood muse, the wise father learns to sing again.

The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.

If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less.

A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.