If I have held a part of myself back from my children, I have obviously spent some time calculating the expense of being a father. And the fact is, a real father doesn't do that kind of math.

A mother will birth her baby once, but she will spend a lifetime birthing a person.

Deep in the voice of a child and laced throughout the melody of their laughter we can hear what life was like before ‘innocence stolen’ swept it away. And if we bend down and listen closely, we suddenly realize that life was never stolen. Rather, we gave it away.